From America's acclaimed master of the war novel comes Harold Coyle's most gripping thriller yet as he takes readers to a new level of battlefield realism and excitement in this story that echoes the complex U.S. military mission in today's world. A corrupt and fractured government in Bogota, Columbia, requests a small expeditionary force of U.S. troops to combat drug lords and a growning insurgency.

This scenario for disaster unfolds as the 11th Air Assault Dvision is called to action as a police forced as Brigadier General Scott Dixon reports back that this is a war America cannot win.

With careers hanging in the balance, Captain Nancy Kozak struggles to survive an explosive crash that pits resolve against prejudice, and honor against ambition.