Orders from Barksdale

By Roger Brantley

One soldier in handcuffs.
One verdict they swore would never be seen.
One trial the U.S. military will deny ever happened.

When Lieutenant Cade Hunter is arrested on Barksdale Air Force Base without warning, there are no charges read. No rights given. No record of why he's there.

Behind closed doors, a shadow tribunal prepares to bury him under classified evidence the jury will never see. His assigned civilian attorney a man with his own dark history inside the Pentagon is the only thing standing between Cade and a verdict written before the trial began.

As Cade fights to survive a courtroom designed to destroy him, he uncovers a file marked Operation Crimson Flag a mission so explosive it could collapse careers, topple commands, and drag the U.S. military into the biggest scandal in its history.

But some orders don't come in writing.
And some soldiers aren't meant to come home.

Orders from Barksdale is a high-stakes fusion of:

Military legal drama & courtroom warfare

Buried operations & classified lies

Louisiana shadows & Southern corruption

A ticking-clock trial where losing means vanishing forever

This isn't just a novel.
It's the trial the Pentagon hoped you'd never read.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FCC9X9MJ
• ISBN13: 9798287118211
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"