Ordered
to forget.
Cannibal Island.
Lost at sea. An island no map shows.
An order to keep his mouth shut.
A special operations soldier drifts five days in the Indian Ocean and washes up on an island of cannibals, where Americans are being flown in to die. He fights his way off. Then his own government tells him to forget it ever happened. He’s old now, death is at his door, and he wants his story told.
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Fifteen chapters.
One survivor.
Stranded in the ocean
Five days on a life raft in the Indian Ocean, far from his team, holding on to one thought: we don’t leave our brothers behind.
Discovering the cannibals
Torches in the trees, screaming in the dark, and a crown made of human jawbones.
A secret white resident
Standing among the cannibals, a man in jeans and a button-down shirt. And the victims on the fire looked American.
The landing strip
A clearing, an old Jeep under a plastic tarp, and a plane that lands four times a month. Someone with money was running this island.
The final ambush
Fifteen captives, sharpened sticks and rocks, and one chance when the plane comes back.
Escape and silence
A landing on Diego Garcia, a debriefing, non-disclosure agreements, and an order to forget.
Good versus evil.
The first blow.
“I believe it’s a story about the wrath of God, judgment, good versus evil. Together, we cut down evil. Real evil. Evil people haven’t seen since the biblical days. And God chose me to strike the first blow.”
— from chapter fifteen
This is a violent story, because what he found was evil. It’s told the way he told it: a soldier, his prayers, the people he freed, and the silence he was ordered to keep.
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