When the steel door closes, Sam finds himself awash in total, impenetrable darkness. He’s been in some hairy situations before, especially in Afghanistan. He’s found himself pinned down for hours at a time by enemy sniper fire. He’s nearly been blown up by roadside IEDs and RPGs in Kuwait and Iraq. He’s suffered frostbite from agonizing winter hikes and dehydration from marathon summer marches in the Kandahar Valley. As a Sky Marshal, he was nearly killed along with a two-hundred-thirty other souls when a terrorist attempted to detonate a laptop bomb at thirty-three-thousand feet. He’s even been forced to stop a runaway locomotive about to crash into a deep mountain gorge. But never has he been subjected to the kind of torture Channy Lin just put him through. For the first time ever, he wa
