What would you do if you were wrongly (or for that matter, rightly) faced with life imprisonment and possibly the death penalty? Hang out in a military stockade? Or the state penitentiary? Hope that some new evidence turns up and ends up clearing you? Hell no! You escape, if you get the chance; I would anyway. But then what do you do afterwards? This is an exercise in both survival and greatness on the other side of the prison bars.
For those familiar with detective hero, Bruce Highland, Rex Muse is a different animal. Think of James Bond. He had to start somewhere, right? The movies never really got into it, but you would think that at the beginning of his career as a notable International spy working for British Intelligence; he must have been green. But no, the way he's portrayed he probably exited the womb wearing a tuxedo, packing a Walther PPK, smoothly working the maternity ward nurses. Come on man, that's ridiculous. Rex Muse learned the trade the hard way. He was thrust in an unworkable, life ending situation, and he became a new man. Literally.
This work is a good, solid, old fashion military action adventure with some romantic interludes woven into the tapestry. You will see Muse transition from young, talented green paramilitary operative to a hardened, seasoned veteran of the game, who could kick Bond's ass and give Jason Bourne a healthy run for his money.
Here is a funny anecdote – In the original version of the novel, the first aircraft I had the bad guys flying around in was a Lockheed Electra L188 (a four engine turboprop.) I asked my cover artist to put in a Lockheed Electra L188. I sent him an image of a Lockheed Electra L188. What I got was an ATR 42. Or a 72. Both ATR’s look about the same, particularly when altered for cover art. Initially, I was going to have him go back to the drawing board, but the more I looked at the cover, the more I liked the ATR. In fact, I liked it so much that I rewrote the novel to include an ATR 42, which arguably fits the mission better than the Electra did.