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Nam had worked closely with the narrator over the years, forging a bond strengthened by shared dangers and mission successes. But during the fall of Kabul, he found himself hiding like Anne Frank—holed up at his uncle’s house, amid a city under Taliban control. His phone was his lifeline, but it was also a ticking time bomb; Taliban fighters were actively texting him, hunting him down, and he had no safe houses left, no government outreach, no rescue options. The scattered remnants of Afghan special forces had been disbanded, leaving soldiers like Nam isolated and vulnerable.