Another man's war

Sam Childers grew up with a violent father and a devout mother, and the tension between those two influences shaped a restless youth. He drifted into drug dealing and the biker underworld, living by his temper and appetites. The memoir traces how he changed course and became a man ready to stake everything on the children caught in Sudan's conflict.

Today he works in some of the most perilous areas of Sudan and Uganda, alongside a group of Sudanese fighters he hires. Their task is to pull orphans and child soldiers out of the fighting. Childers keeps his goal plain: protect the children, whatever it costs him.