Steve Richie was one of the best pilots in the business. Until, on a stormy night in Manila, the former military aviator ran out of luck and runway.
He fought his way back into the cockpit from injury only for a gut-wrenching fear to threaten to ground him for good.
But not before he completes one last job: to fly a rattletrap twin-engined freighter across Africa to its new owner - no questions asked.
Richie is quickly drawn into a high-stakes game of international arms dealing and diamond smuggling in which his own life is of no consequence.
But while the ex-fighter pilot may be down, he's not out. And those who have bet against him will find out just how much of the Top Gun he once was still survives...
