It was the most horrifying military atrocity since My Lai - an elite US army special forces team positioned behind enemy lines had violated standing orders and butchered a patrol of twenty-five Serbian soldiers in cold blood. Worse, survivors of the initial attack had been shot in the back of the head, and one decapitated corpse had been left on the battlefield.

No explanation, and no obvious motive, but repercussions were already global. Now Major Sean Drummond, military lawyer, has to go to Kosovo and find out just what happened on that fateful afternoon. But with CIA obstruction, army hostility, the murder of a top journalist and a possible traitor in his own crew, Drummond quickly finds himself over his head and under serious fire…