Gil Formosa – författare

Lady X, Buck's nemesis, has given all three pilots the slip. Unfortunately, she's also managed to pick up a Russian defector who's not only shot Natalya, the beautiful scientist Buck appears to have fallen for, but also carries with him a sample of an incredibly deadly virus. With the assistance of the French Navy, the three American aces will have to track down their old enemy through one of the least hospitable parts of the world...

Despite every effort on Lady X's part, Buck and Sonny have survived, and with them the antigens needed to create a defence against the Antarctic virus - a failure that puts the mercenary woman in an extremely precarious position with her employers. When those shadowy figures decide to move their plans to release the virus forward, no matter the cost in human lives, a race against time begins to save millions...

Buck and his friends are sent to Edwards Air Force Base on a new top-secret assignment. Their joy at being test pilots again is short-lived: they are in fact to test and train an artificial intelligence program that could very well one day replace them in the cockpit of a fighter jet. As if that wasn't enough, the project is plagued by a string of incidents, to the point that Buck begins to - rightly - suspect outside interference ... A two-part story concluded in the next volume.

When a Japanese patrol plane is shot down by a mysterious aggressor the international community immediately suspects the Chinese - the attack having taken place off the Japanese Senkaku Islands, which China also claims as their own. The incident is extremely serious and could lead to all-out war. Buck is sent by the Pentagon aboard the USS Ronald Reagan to investigate the attack. Can he defuse the situation before it blows out of control?

Despite the assistance of Japanese Counter Intelligence Agent Suki Nishiwa, Buck and his friends were unable to gather solid proof of tycoon Yamasaki and Lady X's plans to trigger a war between China and the United States. The only option they have now is to intercept the stealth jets during their attack run on the Chinese carrier - and theirs. But with Lady X flying the Spectres, and a typhoon coming, can they do it?