Showing results by author "Joshua Bettger" in All Categories

This audiobook is a sweeping, time spanning journey through the hidden emotional terrain of American service — from the quiet rituals of modern deployments to the mud choked battlefields of the Civil War and the dust heavy compounds of Afghanistan. Across eras, landscapes, and uniforms, these stories reveal the private moments of courage, fear, and connection that never make it into history books.

Narrated with the warmth of a flickering fire and the grit of a long journey, The Dogs That Bind Us is an immersive global odyssey into the heart of the world’s oldest friendship. There is a silent treaty signed in the dirt thousands of years ago. We call it The Binding. It is the golden thread that connects a home office in the Pacific Northwest to a dusty rhino sanctuary in South Africa; a crowded subway in Chicago to a snow-choked pass in the Himalayas.

Naval Pilot Marty Elias is exhausted. Six months of brutal deployment have left him brittle, his current anchor the engagement ring in his jacket and the love of his life, a brilliant mathematician waiting in Port Orchard: Jessie Albright.