Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola.
Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to
parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and
other agencies race to find out what happened, in the process elbowing
one another in the sides a little too vigorously.
Fed up, the president of the United States turns to an outside
investigator to determine the truth, an Army intelligence officer
serving as special assistant to the secretary of homeland security.
Delta Force major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, known as Charley, is the
son of a German mother and a Tex-Mex father who was killed in the
Vietnam War and awarded a Medal of Honor. A West Point graduate, a
pilot, and a veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the
facts--and the reality behind them. Traveling undercover, he flies to
Africa, and there, helped and hindered by unexpected allies and
determined enemies, begins to untangle a story of frightening
dimensions--a story that, unless he can do something about it, will end
very, very badly indeed, not only for Castillo...but for all of America.