A motor launch carrying the USS Ronald Reagan's top brass is attacked. Everyone on board is killed, including two admirals and an American ambassador. The United States vows a swift reprisal. Enter squadron skipper Brick Maxwell and his Roadrunners - the jocks who fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets. Their mission: strike deep in northern Yemen's highlands. Their target: Colonel Jamal Al-Fasr, the charismatic commander who masterminded the plot to kill the admirals. But Al-Fasr is a skilled fighter pilot who learned his craft in the United States - and with his insider's edge, he has laid a deadly trap for Maxwell and the warriors of the Reagan battle group. Yemen has become a killing ground...