This is a suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Three members of the army’s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgent and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad-in order to try and make the city a safer place for for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear-protect and save- but its anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians and the effects of risk and danger on the human psyche is a fictional tale inspired by real events journalist and screen writer Mark Boal, who have embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to ”the hurt locker.”