Jake Adams, former Air Force Intelligence Officer and CIA Agent, is called in to find the missing tech rep in charge of an avionics retrofit at a U. S. Air Base in Germany. There is evidence of an international conspiracy and a sell-out of vital top-secret technology from the new U.N. Joint Strike Fighter. Pulled back into a changing Europe, Adams struggles to survive as profits become more important than patriotism or principles. The threads lead from a U. S. Aircraft Carrier off the coast of Italy, to the chill banks of the Rhine. Adams is pursued by ruthless German and Hungarian agents who are also looking for the missing man and the secrets to the techonology he holds. It is up to Jake Adams to stop their fatal network....**