Oblivious to the killers' schemes, Ryan and Joy return home, continue their education, get married and Ryan is shipped off to Vietnam. In a tragic twist of fate, on the same day Ryan is captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of war, his beloved Joy is brutally murdered. Years will pass before Ryan learns the truth about his wife's death, after surviving torture and deprivation at the hands of a foreign enemy and orchestrating a heroic escape. It will be the trials and revelations that await him on the home front that mold Ryan into a man bent on gaining justice for the woman he loved, and impassioned to extract that justice, even if it means doing it himself.
The Wrath of Azrael is a fast-paced and heart-wrenching epic about love, honor, loyalty, and the depths and stamina of the human spirit.