Victoria Brooks knows how to fly ghosts. When an SR-91—one of the world’s most secret reconnaissance jets and the only carrier of a revolutionary quantum decryption system—is taken, the mission to get it back becomes a high-wire act between national survival and outright annihilation. As interceptors close in, Victoria’s choices force uneasy Daniel Mitchell, the pilot-turned-retrieval specialist; Lucas Shaw, the codebreaker racing to decrypt and transmit the plane’s hidden logs; and Melissa Moore, the medic who keeps people alive long enough to matter.
Their hunt threads across storm-slashed skies, broken command centers, and a covert net of black-ops hunters willing to erase anyone in their way. Every maneuver, every keystroke, every heartbeat could be the last. The question at the heart of their can truth be rescued from a plane built to vanish—and will exposing it save more than it destroys?