Miranda Chase

A US Air Force C-130 transport plane, bearing top secret cargo, lies shattered in the Nevada desert at Groom Lake. China’s prototype fifth-generation jet fighter goes missing. Far above, a US supersonic stealth drone flies a very lethal black op. The CIA, the US military command, and the secretive National Reconnaissance Office are all locked in a battle for control of the nation’s future. Miranda Chase, the National Transportation Safety Board’s air-crash savant, lands in the center of the gathering maelstrom.

The best ground-attack support fighter jets ever built - the A-10 Thunderbolt “Warthogs” - are falling out of the sky. The Air Force brass repeatedly schemes to decommission this low-tech jet. They’ve been blocked by soldiers, pilots, and Congress…so far. The “Hog” lies at the crux of a high-tech struggle for power. An interagency skirmish that now rapidly descends into a battle fought on a global scale. Miranda Chase, air-crash savant for the National Transportation Safety Board, and her team dive in.

The Antonov AN-124 Ruslan “Condor” - the heavyweight champ among production cargo jets. Russian tanks, American firefighting helicopters, rescue submersibles, satellites, city-sized power transformers...the Condor hauls them all over the world. But when one lifts a top-secret payload rated as too dangerous, the US government decides it must take action. Untraceable action. Call Delta Force? SEAL Team Six? No. They call Miranda Chase, lead crash investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board to fake a crash. 

An AC-130J “Ghostrider” - the latest variant of America’s most lethal aerial gunship - goes down hard in the Colorado Rockies. Except the data doesn’t match the airframe. Air-crash savant, and high-functioning autistic, Miranda Chase leads her NTSB team in to investigate. But what they uncover reveals a far greater threat - sabotage. If she can’t solve the crash in time, a new type of war will erupt. One far too close to home which threatens to shatter her team.

The US Army’s brand-new S-97 Raider reconnaissance helicopter goes down during final acceptance testing - hard. Its cause: a failure, or the latest in a series of cyberattacks by Turkey. Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB air-crash specialists tackle the challenge. They must find the flaw, save the vice president, and stop the US from being forced into the next war in the Middle East. And they have to do it now!