The King of Clubs

Nathan, an Army Ranger, and his team pursue Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri (The King of Clubs) in Iraq, who is directly responsible for numerous civilian and coalition deaths, and one of the few Ba'athist's to evade capture. During one of their first raids, Steven, a team member, fails to fully inspect a Muslim woman during a search of a neighborhood in Fallujah. Minutes later, she detonates a suicide vest and kills members of another team. Later, the Ranger's learn that Al-Douri has begun commanding his own insurgent Army, and they set out to find his conspirators. Going door to door throughout neighborhoods from Fallujah to Baghdad, they soon realize the hold he has on his people. With a tip from a local informant, (Codename: Sparrow) the Rangers learn that Al-Douri has been coordinating insurgent attacks from the safety of Syria. A few days later, the informant is found dead in a ditch. The Rangers form a joint task force with the Special Forces, with the sole purpose of finding Al-Douri. He shows up in Baghdad a few weeks later and beheads a collaborator as a warning to everyone else. Once, again, he disappears. Nathan and his team begin to see their mission becoming a stalemate. The stressors of war and lives lost all culminate together when Nathan becomes severely injured trying to save the life of one of his Soldier’s as they track their primary target to an insurgent stronghold outside of Baghdad. After the raid, the Ranger's believe that Al-Douri has been killed. Nathan has lost a leg from the RPG explosion. He is sitting in his living room after being medically retired a few months later, in shock, while Al-Douri resurfaces on CNN. Steven shows up at Nathan's house to check on him, crying and confesses that he failed to find the vest on the woman that killed their friends. Nathan and Steven share a moment as they come to terms with the events that led them there in the first place.