At the Navy's flight school in Pensacola,
Florida, a fierce rivalry boils over between
two US Navy flight squadrons and turns
Personal. It's about to get ugly.
Strap in for the high-octane world of
Lieutenants Frank Nicolosi and Joe
Christmas, T-34C instructors who lead
their squadron with precision and intensity.
Nicolosi, cool but tightly wound, pushes
to keep his squad ahead because second
place means a slow death by inches whether
screaming through the clouds or crushing
it in ruthless sporting showdowns where
the stakes are brutal. Christmas is fire to
Nicolosi's ice. Intense and unpredictable.
Losing? Not in his DNA. Together, they forge
a squadron that's as lethal as it is legendary!

Then everything changes.

A rival squadron surges ahead with a cutthroat
edge, led by a ruthless Marine with a combathardened
mindset and no moral compass.
Pressure mounts for Nicolosi and his fellow
instructors to regain superiority, and things
spiral into something darker. Unexpected love
affairs exasperate matters.

And beneath the surface, cracks begin to show.
A colossal failure at the command level rocks the
squadron and rips a family apart with shocking
revelations, a flight instructor vanishes, and a
student crosses a line he can never uncross
and must cope with the consequences of his
immoral actions.

In this exciting historical novel, US Navy flight
instructors and their student pilots compete
fearlessly in the sky and on the ground, and
reap the rewards and consequences of their
actions in a world where loyalty, ambition and
morality collide.