Author: Robbie Bach,Author 

After leaving Microsoft he worked with other corporations and civic organizations to create positive change in their communities. He lectures with regularity at colleges and universities, as well as, trade associations, corporations, and civic organizations. In 2015 he published Xbox Revised: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal.

He sits on many corporate boards and is a graduate of Stanford (Arjay Miller Scholar, Master’s of Business Administration) and a Morehead Scholar at University of North Carolina (undergraduate). 

The opening chapter is April of 2019. The main character, a woman officer in the Air Force by the name of Captain Tamika Smith, led the CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) team rescue efforts on the downed civilian 757 with 200 passengers and thirteen crew aboard at Offutt Air Force Base. Crashing planes by the very nature of that folly are quite violent and oftentimes break apart on impact. The door blew off at 34k feet and the plane floundered. Would this be a mission of search and rescue or merely recovery? 

Tamika tried to triage the scene. Amazingly, some had survived. How Tamika did not know. Two people she comes across are elderly and ask about a man who helped them as the plane was diving toward the ground. They hope to find him and thank him. They share his name with Tamika. She is too busy to know the names of the survivors at this point. All of her mental and physical strength are being consumed to rescue those that are alive. Sorting out the dead will come last. 

Toward the end of this excruciatingly sad mission Tamika and one of her team members are heading down one of the other runways when she catches something out of the side of her vision. She stops the truck and sprints down the side of the hill to find another passenger from the crash. A man. She hefts him upon her shoulder and manages to get him back to the truck while her teammate calls for a life flight. He is badly injured and has lost a lot of blood. 

The media catch her in this heroic act and she is propelled into the limelight which makes her uncomfortable. Her picture saving this unknown man are now on all of the news stations, social media outlets, and newspapers across the nation. Reporters are scrambling for interviews. Her boss, Colonel Jessup is not thrilled with this turn of events. He has been hard on her and this just seems to make things worse. 

Eventually, Tamika makes time to visit the elderly couple at the hospital and then man who she saved. They are so grateful for her saving their lives. She meets the estranged wife of the unknown man and learns his name is Johnny Humboldt. Their lives are destined to come together again despite walking separate paths. 

A man by the name of Obaid Bin Latif has taken responsibility for this crash and promised much more chaos to come. Will the intelligence forces find out who he is before he can wreak havoc? What will come of the elderly couple, Mr. Humboldt and Tamika?

This was a real page turner. I loved it and think you will too!