In the Philippines, Captain Samantha 'Spike' Hunt has once again saved the day. The price, her destroyer squadron and her husband. In Britain, a disgruntled Commodore Carpenter convinces General James Doolittle to approve thousand plane raid deep into Germany. A raid that must get past a forty-mile belt of anti-air defenses. At the end of her thirty-day survivors leave, Sam is working with Commodore Scott Richardson at Cape Canaveral when she hears the news of the disastrous loss of over 700 aircraft and their crews in the ill-fated raid. Commodore Carpenter is relieved of his command by General Eisenhower and sent home in disgrace. King George the VI and Churchill request that Captain Hunt return to England. Hunt returns with three war-tempered Navy aces, and their RIOs, with four weeks to train the replacement aircrews and to restore the morale of the Army Air Force. Then Captain Hunt must lead them back over Germany. The Allies must have control of the skies before D-Day. They must destroy the Luftwaffe. Can Sam Hunt and her aces pull off the impossible. They must. They will. It's the return of the dragon,