The elite American unit known as Task Force TALON continues to battle a Russian terrorist group known as the Consortium, whose leader, Yegor Zakharov, seeks to exploit the porous Mexican border to infiltrate the U.S. and has allied himself with a mysterious Mexican smuggler of drugs and people. When U.S. Border Patrol agents are massacred, the National Security Agency adviser proposes such radical steps as using robots and nanotechnology to protect...

Scion Aviation International has been hired by the Pentagon to take over aerial patrols in northern Iraq. As the U.S. military begins to downsize its presence there, Kevin Martindale and Patrick McLanahan take an assignment in northern Iraq. During the withdrawal of U.S. troops they find themselves a solitary force in an unexpected clash between Kurdish nationalists and Turkish invaders. Retired Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan makes...