WHEN A U-2 SPY PLANE GOES DOWN IN A FIERY HEAP， THE PILOT S DEATH IS A TRAGEDY -- BUT IT S NO ACCIDENT.U.S. Colonel Ed Coffin is sent to South Korea， the land of his birth， to lead the most important and grim investigation of his career: a secret U-2 spy plane has crashed under highly suspicious circumstances. A former U-2 squadron commander， Coffin is teamed up with his former lover， the irrepressible OSI investigator Marva "Mother" Hubbard， and together they learn that the plane s pilot was specifically targeted for death -- but why? Navigating a geopolitical web strewn with murder， ambition， and betrayal， Coffin is soon embroiled in a desperate race for survival. But Coffin is also on another， more personal mission -- and one way or the other， it may be his last.