U.S. Navy pilot and intelligence officer Alan Craik returns to rescue a downed friend and colleague in this second thriller in the series by a former military father-and-son writing team.Gordon Kent, the pseudonym of a father-and-son writing team, both of whom have served in the U.S. Navy, brings back Alan Craik in this second tour de force of a thriller. This time, Alan has just returned from sea duty and is stuck behind a desk in the Pentagon. When he learns that his best friend, a CIA agent, has been kidnapped in central Africa-just as Rwanda is about to be engulfed in violence-he doesn't need an excuse to set out on a rescue mission. After flying out to join a Mediterranean-bound U.S. fleet that is covering the growing Africa crisis, he soon finds himself stranded, along with his
… read more...wounded friend, in the middle of the continent as war rages all around.Taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride-from a nighttime helicopter raid in snow-covered Bosnia, to a wing-and-a-prayer flight in a single-engine plane over the African jungle, and a marathon mission on board a Navy jet-this multilayered tale of betrayal, conspiracy, and modern espionage confirms Gordon Kent as a major new voice incontemporary military suspense writing.Read More read less...