First in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Dale
Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on the
hunt for Russian commandos in the mountains of Alaska.
After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence
officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along
Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put
his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly
into obscurity...
As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft
begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for
a possible first strike, using Russia's new long-range stealth cruise
missiles? Or is some other motive driving the Kremlin to take
ever-increasing risks along the hostile Arctic frontier separating two
of the world's great powers?
When an American F-22 collides with one of the Russian interlopers,
things go south fast--in seconds, missiles are fired. There are no
survivors. Despite horrific weather, Flynn and his security team are
ordered to parachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash
sites ahead of the Russians. It's now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA
are withholding vital information, but Flynn and his men have no choice
but to make the dangerous jump.
Soon they're caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with Spetsnaz
commandos operating covertly on American soil. It seems that the F-22s
and their Russian counterparts aren't the first aircraft to have gone
missing in these desolate mountains. The Kremlin is hunting for the
first prototype of its new stealth bomber--which vanished on what was
supposed to be a test flight...while loaded with nuclear-armed stealth
cruise missiles.
As Russia and the U.S. square off on the brink of all-out-war, it's up
to Nick to find the missing bomber...and prevent a potential nuclear
holocaust.
