A new kind of courage. A new kind of war.

Mark Stone has a score to settle. A former Green Beret, he has only one activity that gives meaning to his life–finding American's forgotten fighting men, the P.O.W.'s the government has conveniently labeled M.I.A.'s, and bringing them back from their hell on earth.

It's too big a job for one man. But Stone has friends. And with Hog Wiley and Terrance Loughlin-a merc from east Texas and a crack British commando–Stone returns to the steaming jungles of Laos on a do-or-die mission: to free a captured gighter jock from the sadistic commander who has sentenced him to a fate worse than death...