Strange Air Freight: They Brought Home More than the Dead

They asked questions that could get them killed.

For a seasoned reporter, covering the drawdown of American troops in Iraq was supposed to be a straightforward, low-risk assignment. But a sudden ambush leaves him wounded and confined to a military hospital bed.

He shouldn't have been there. And he certainly shouldn't have heard the final, desperate words of a dying Marine-flown in from a completely different theater of war in Afghanistan.

What starts as a journalist's skepticism quickly turns into a fight for survival. Alongside a sharp military nurse who heard the same impossible confession, the duo begins pulling at a loose thread. What they uncover is a sprawling, worldwide drug-smuggling operation fueled by corrupt politicians, ruthless Mexican cartels, and a compromised network of law enforcement.

Target numbers on their backs, they must rely on their wits to survive a barrage of assassination attempts. As the web tightens and the line between ally and enemy blurs, they face a harrowing question: Who can you trust when the system itself wants you dead?