Based on the Armstrong Space Station orbiting the earth,
the Black Stallion spaceplanes of General Patrick
McLanahan's Aerospace Battle Force can attack any target on
the planet within hours—and its powerful network of
satellites can invade any computer network as easily as
making a phone call. Western-educated Russian president
Leonid Zevitin, one of the ABF's most dangerous adversaries,
is determined to destroy all support for the space program
by using a potent combination of top-secret anti-spacecraft
weaponry, fear-mongering, and a new U.S. president's own
egotism.
But McLanahan and his forces will not
allow the Russian aggression to stand. Sensing deep-seated
treachery, the general ignores directives from the White
House and Pentagon and dispatches the ABF to attack secret
Russian bases in Iran—which results in a presidential order
for his immediate arrest. But before they can throw Patrick
McLanahan in prison, the government will have to figure out
how to retrieve him from his stronghold in space.