U.S. Fighting Air Force #28

Nick Brooks has always dreamed of following his brother Tom into the paratroopers, and after enlisting, he's assigned to Tom's old outfit, the Eagle Division. But when a tragic accident during training claims Sergeant Hawkins during a jump, Nick is suddenly gripped by paralyzing fear—and he's not alone. Tom shares a hard truth with his younger brother: he too froze before his first combat jump in Normandy, but learned that courage means doing what you have to do anyway, even when you're terrified.

Two rival flyboys from New York's Lower East Side, Joe Sloan and Tommy Baxter, carry their lifelong feud straight into the Korean War—only to find themselves locked in a dangerous aerial contest over enemy territory. When a critical tunnel mission goes catastrophically wrong, their bitter rivalry becomes something far more complicated than either of them expected. A gripping tale of pride, duty, and what it really means to call someone an enemy.

Major Hank Stone is a hard-nosed Marine commander who demands perfection from his pilots—until a tragic bombing run over Korea leaves him responsible for the deaths of fifty men, a catastrophic mistake that shatters his own iron code. Arrested for his error, Stone faces an agonizing reckoning with the very standards he's imposed on others, and discovers that even the toughest soldiers aren't machines. What unfolds is a test of whether Stone can live by the discipline and honor he's preached all along.

A Navy weather plane vanishes in Arctic waters with no distress call, shot down by enemy fighters in a region where none should exist—and Commander Frank Case is determined to solve the impossible mystery. His wild hunch about a hidden enemy base leads him to a shocking discovery that sets off a desperate underwater sabotage mission against all odds. With atomic charges and the freezing sea as his only weapons, the Commander races against time to stop a threat the Navy never saw coming.