Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Dan West has nerves of steel. He regularly risks his life to disarm IEDs. He puts up with his squad mates’ mean-spirited pranks without complaint. And when West finds an Afghan boy standing on a bomb’s pressure plate, he still manages to keep calm; because if he doesn’t, West will be forced to face the only thing he truly fears—the pink mist. The bloody result of a bomb taking someone’s life.

Private Eli Recato's fellow soldiers call him “Bloodhound,” but Eli isn’t fond of the nickname. He isn’t fond of his self-appointed best buddy, Private Badger, either. What he IS fond of is saving lives by sniffing out IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) in Afghanistan and disabling them. But when a bomb finds HIM, Eli is faced with a choice that seems to be little more than the flip of a coin: head into a crawlspace and hide with an Afghan man he’s never met before, or hightail it out of ...

When she was just a kid, Rose Campbell’s mom constantly told her to “Take things slow.” Now, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Rose takes the advice to heart. One misstep, and boom—somebody dies. But lately, every day feels exactly the same: IEDs are found in the same locations. Rose’s team finds the bombs. They disarm them. Then they move on to the next one. But Rose knows better than to get impatient--because that’s exactly what the bomb makers are hoping for.