An American operative--long thought dead and memorialized in the CIA's highly classified Book of Honor--has just sent a desperate call for help from deep in the Chinese wilderness. There is only one plane for such a dangerous mission: the Shadow Catcher--a smaller, even less detectable version of a stealth plane. Only Nick and his team will be on board when the plane goes into action.

But what Baron and his men don't know is that an enemy is already among them--and that the Shadow Catcher itself may be the ultimate prize...