A story of drug dealing and murder at the home base of special forces operatives sounds like a tailor-made logline for a series. Which it will be, after HBO won a bidding war over multiple other outlets for rights to a recently published nonfiction book.

The premium outlet has landed rights to author Seth Harp’s book The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces . HBO plans to develop a series based on the book, with Harp and former HBO Films president Len Amato (via his company Crash & Salvage) executive producing. A search for a writer/showrunner to adapt the material is underway.

Published by Viking on Aug. 12, The Fort Bragg Cartel is set to debut at No. 2 on the combined print/ebook New York Times bestseller list, and No. 5 among hardcover sales, t

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