Below the title, the author’s name: Anthony Shaffer.

But the title wasn't what made Elias’s hands tremble. It was the text. Or rather, the lack of it.

In 2010, the Pentagon spent nearly to buy and destroy the entire first print run of Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan . Written by retired Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer , a former intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the memoir provides a firsthand account of covert operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Censorship Controversy