The Black Company

Glen Cook's The Black Company series follows a small, elite group of mercenaries through their battles in a world filled with powerful people, most of whom are evil. They won't go around burning down orphanages, but they do bad work for bad people for most of their existence.

It's a fantasy series that has little to do with traditional high fantasy. The only true wizards are so unbelievably powerful, that they are never directly encountered. Kings and Queens wouldn't dare stoop to the level of congregating with mere mercenaries. Maybe because of these things, the world, and our specific group of 'heroes' seem all the more realistic. In fact, military veterans often remark that the book's portrayal of soldiers is among the most realistic of any fiction novel (fantasy setting excluded).

To this point, what if The Black Company was about groups of soldiers in modern-day Afghanistan? Burqas and bullets come together with Soulcatcher's skull mask in this re-imagining.