"Retired Air Force investigator Martin Collins lives a quiet life in rural Virginia, working as the local chief of police and consulting on military homicides. When he's called in to assist on a grisly triple murder case, nothing can prepare him for the crime scene: Colonel Margaret Wildman and her two young children, their throats slashed, left to die in pools of their own blood." "At first, there seems to be no motive for the murders. But as Collins works his way through an increasingly puzzling maze of clues, he finds a secret that leads to the highest levels of the government - and the military. Buried files reveal a link between Colonel Wildman and a series of fatal airline crashes; political pressure to keep the secret grows, as does the body count. Collin's own life is jeopardized as he closes in on the truth, which will emerge only after a shocking confrontation on the floors of Congress."--BOOK JACKET.