Brick Maxwell lost his best friend when squadron mate Raz Rasmussen was shot down in the Gulf War. Though Raz's body was never recovered, he was declared KIA and soon forgotten. Years later, when Raz's now-remarried wife receives a call claiming that he is alive, she frantically asks Maxwell to investigate. At first, Maxwell is ignored by the CIA—until his old enemy, Jamal Al-Fasr, is captured on the Iraq-Iran border and offers to trade himself for an American POW. Maxwell attends the exchange, in case the POW turns out to be Raz. But the CIA is working its own shady agenda—and a shocking betrayal will place Maxwell right in the kill zone...