Shadows of War — Robert Gandt

Now Gandt's fighter pilot hero, Brick Maxwell, returns for a mission of personal duty that will push him to the very edge....

Brick Maxwell lost a good friend when squadron mate Raz Rasmussen was shot down in the first 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 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....