Brandon Stiles goes to war, is captured on the final day of conflict, and is believed to have died before the cease-fire. A late release of this soldier would raise questions. Who else has not been returned? Better to keep or kill him. A comrade in arms, badly injured and in coma, years later remembers. Like shards of glass, memory slowly rewinds and pieces come together. Brandon isn't dead. He's missing. A brother's love fuels relentless effort and warriors join to find and free him despite resistance at the highest levels of the Defense Department. A politician buries evidence thought...

How narcissistic must a man be to think that he is the victim when his tortured captive escapes? But that is the upside down world Sgt. Brandon Stiles enters when he returns home from war. How dare he disrupt the megalomaniacal dreams of his captor, Colonel Hassan Rashid. One attempt to silence Sgt. Stiles has already failed and now, on American soil, other attempts are made. Frustrated by incompetence, angered by the deception of a friend, and enraged by the inconvenience Sergeant Stiles has caused him by living, Colonel Rashid presses his attack to kill Sgt. Stiles and restore the Rashid...