Communications Officer Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe had gotten the order to stand down and return to base twice now and not kill Taliban soldiers. He really does not understand these orders. Why were they here anyway? Upon questioning the orders, Hawk learns that the orders were not sent by his command base. Someone is interrupting the Special Forces communications and redirecting them. Hawk is determined to find out who is doing this and why.

Fekiria Haidary is an Afghan National Army pilot. She has just completed flight school and is awarded an opportunity for advanced flight training. She has done this without the approval of her family, who believe that women should stay home, get married and have babies. Fekiria has always been a rebel.

At the Kandahar Airfield Fekiria is kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to fly a helicopter for terrorists. Their intent is to bomb a building where Hawk is getting a little too close to finding who is responsible for hijacking his team's communications. In the process, the Raptor team takes out the helicopter, but Fekiria ejects herself in time to escape. Hawk sees her come down and goes after her. The two of them have met before and it wasn't on friendly terms. Can Hawk save her and the children he finds her with, or will the terrorists get to them first? And are these terrorists Taliban or Chinese?

Ronie Kendig is a master at weaving several sub-plots together, toggling back and forth between them simultaneously, and then bringing them all together at the end. The action in HAWK is non-stop with suspense at every turn. There are a multitude of characters in this story, but the hero and heroine, Hawk and Fekiria, are both the strong, resilient type. Trouble seems to find them both very easily. This inspirational thriller is about trying too hard to prove one's self, about being afraid of relationships and about having a relationship with God rather than being religious. Ms. Kendig lets us catch up on other characters of whom she has told their stories in previous books in this Quiet Professionals series, as well as her Breed Apart series. HAWK is inspirational suspense at its very best!

Book Summary

Raptor’s communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian “Hawk” Bledsoe is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an “other than honorable” discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives.

Afghan pilot Fekiria Haidary is devastated when a systems glitch on her aircraft forces a weapons launch on a safe target. And when the deadly bombing separates Brian from the team, he must make an impossible choice: save his brothers-in-arms, or save the woman and children depending on him to survive a brutal snowstorm.