Kandahar, Afghanistan -
Jesus, don't tell me I'm going to die before I even get there!
The irony and terribleness of the thought both horrified and amused Jillian Knight. It would be just her bad luck, she thought with surprising detachment, to die in a plane crash before her first experience with war and the people who called themselves warriors. To be killed before learning their stories and training her camera on them, her portfolio forever lacking the one thing any award-winning photojournalist craved - a stint in a war zone.