Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman »

MARY TILLMAN is a special education teacher in San Jose, California, where she lives.

NARDA ZACCHINO is former associate editor of the Los Angeles Times and former deputy editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Berkeley, California.

In this explosive, heartbreaking, and deeply personal book, Mary Tillman shares the story of her son Pat's extraordinary life, the meaning of patriotism, and the Tillman family's efforts to uncover the truth about his death in Afghanistan at the hands of his fellow soldiers.

The New York Times - Tara McKelvey

Much of the story has been revealed in newspapers and Congressional testimony. Yet Boots on the Ground by Dusk offers something other accounts do not: the heartache of searching for answers about a son's death…it overflows with love and moral outrage.