In this fourth novel of the Code Word series, Navy strike fighter pilot Kaycee "Pecos" Jenkins and warship skipper Mort Greenhouse face new challenges. With three kills in Mideast combat, Kaycee feels her career accelerating like her jet on after-burner. But her life beyond the cockpit isn't locked on: her twin daughters are shutting out their often-absent mom while her husband struggles to cope with their changing needs and behaviors. And she has a secret she fears will damage her Topgun reputation. At the center of that secret are the president's national security advisor and a woman dying of cancer. Commanding a cruiser in the Indian Ocean, Mort Greenhouse struggles to complete a mission so secret he hasn't been told its true objective. Looming over all of them-and an American admiral with the soul of a pirate-are simultaneous threats of war in Europe and Asia.
