One Bullet Away

About the Author

Nathaniel Fick read Classics at Dartmouth, graduated in 1999 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He passed officer training and joined a battalion just before 9/11. Fick saw action in Afghanistan, then joined the elite Recon Battalion in time for the invasion of Iraq. Among the first soldiers to enter Baghdad, he left the Marines in 2003 after being promoted to captain. He is now in a joint degree programme at Harvard Business School of Government.