Estimated time of arrival: Never... When a terrorist bombing strikes a police training center in Kabul, Afghanistan, many are killed. The wounded, including Sergeant Major Sophia Gold, are loaded onto a C-5 Galaxy bound for Germany. But after takeoff, aircraft commander Michael Parson receives a message: the jihadists have placed bombs on planes leaving Afghanistan-and his is one of them. They are trapped in the air. And if they descend, they will die. As the air­craft deteriorates and the patients grow worse, Parson, Gold, and the crew are pushed to the breaking point-and their biggest challenge has yet to show itself. For the enemy is already closer than any of them can dare to imagine…