Bangkok, Thailand
Present Day
A short, Asian man stares at Sam Savage throughout the fifteen-hour flight from Newark, New Jersey all the way to Hong Kong. Sam can’t help but notice. The staring continues during the relatively short three-hour hop from Hong Kong to Bangkok. Not that Sam is a paranoid man. You can’t be paranoid and expect to perform your duties as a Sky Marshal effectively. However, that doesn’t mean you aren’t likely to develop a finely tuned built-in danger detector. It also means you need to grow an extra pair of eyes in the back of your head—something Sam was able to do in the killing fields of Afghanistan years ago when working as a CIA operative immediately after two back to back tours as an Army Ranger. But for the past twenty-four hours, Sam has been keeping his ow
