The United States government has a secret - so devastating that the nation's future safety depends on its continued confidentiality and so well-guarded that not one person in thirty years has ever come close to uncovering the truth. Until now.When Major Will Cadence, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, visits the grave of his father, a Vietnam-era prisoner of war, he is approached by a mysterious woman with claims about MiAs that turn his life upside down. She shows Will a shocking, if improbable picture of his father, taken years after he supposedly died in a North Vietnam PoW camp.As serious doubts about his father's fate suddenly confront him, Will visits Senator Hank Dalton, a former PoW shot down with Will's father. Dalton, in the stretch run of a tight contest for the presidency, helps Will gain an assignment to investigate missing-in-action reports in a unit overseen by the Defense Intelligence Agency, a posting that brings him alongside forensic anthropologist Dr. Gabrielle DeJean. When an attempt on Will's life fails, convincing him and DeJean that they have stumbled onto a massive cover-up, they embark on a dangerous, high-altitude quest, flying from Honolulu to Laos, Bangkok, Moscow, and the frozen Ukraine, where the shocking truth about American PoWs finally begins to emerge. Will and Dejean also learn that a powerful element in the U.S. government doesn't want this information disclosed, even though the security of the former Soviet Union's chemical and biological stockpiles hang in the balance, along with the outcome of the presidential race. Read Less