A Special Forces soldier sacrifices everything to achieve one victory
in America's forever war in Afghanistan.
When Charlie, an American Special Forces soldier, finds out the Taliban
is trying to sell a Soviet suitcase nuke to Al-Qaeda, he enlists his
former interpreter-turned-contractor Ahmed Wali to help recover it. But
Wali--one of the "good" Afghans--has his own problems. The first is with
the local warlord, Jan, who is trying to drive him out of business; the
second is with his uncle, Razaq, whose ties to the Taliban jeopardize
his ability to work with the Americans. As Charlie and Wali--with the
help of Felix, a morally fluid but pragmatic CIA officer--work to get
the suitcase nuke off the battlefield, Air Force Tech Sgt. Canterbury
starts to investigate Wali's business. Canterbury is convinced Wali is a
bad guy and arrests him for working with the Taliban. The arrest sends
the whole operation awry and forces Charlie and Felix to work in the
moral gray areas in order to achieve their objectives.
The Good Afghan is an exploration of identity, politics, and the story
of the Afghan war and America's nation-building experiment gone wrong.
