<p>On a dig at the edge of the sun-seared Sonoran Desert archaeologist Nicolette Scott witnesses a bizarre plane crash that leaves a young man dead in the cockpit of his mangled burning Cessna. Federal investigators call it “pilot error” but the dead man’s grieving grandfather John Gault a man who shares Nick’s passion for aviation is demanding answers. </p> <p>Nick knows what she saw with her own eyes—a chopper shadowing the Cessna before it went down—but no one seems to believe her except John. The two join forces using a lovingly restored B-24 warplane to rip open a secret hidden in the heat-soaked desert. What they find will plunge them into a fierce battle against a deadly conspiracy in the heart of the West’s most forbidding land.</p>