We Are the Bad Guys: The Global Cost of American Power

Marine combat pilot. Naval Academy graduate. Twenty years flying missions across Asia and the Middle East.

Michael T. Lester believed the story America told about itself — until the missions stopped matching the rhetoric, and the people we claimed to liberate didn't feel liberated at all.

That contradiction launched a twenty-year investigation into the parts of American history most of us were never taught.

We Are The Bad Guys pulls together what is usually kept apart — the coups, covert opera...