While Chief Warrant Officer/Navy SEAL Tom Crocker is leading a team of 12 SEALs on a rescue mission in the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan, someone is killing United States and Israeli officials with bombs placed on their cars by motorcycle riders. Seventeen officials, along with some of their wives and other innocent drivers and pedestrians, are murdered in five different countries in a day's time. Crocker learns that this is the work of his old nemesis, Farhed Alizadeh and Unit 5000. Alizadeh, codename The Falcon, is supplying arms to the Taliban for these terrorist attacks.

Crocker and his SEAL Team Six, now known as Black Cell, deploy to Venezuela in search of Unit 5000. Their Intel takes them first into Venezuela, on to Mexico, back to Paraguay and then into Argentina on this hunt. After several of his team members are badly injured and Crocker himself is tortured, the team returns home unsuccessful. Alizadeh and his Unit 5000 just keep slipping away. When the call comes to redeploy to Iran, with Intel saying Alizadeh is there, Black Cell is more than ready to go. Can they capture him this time, or will he slip away again?

We first met Farhed Alizadeh in Don Mann's second SEAL Team Six book, HUNT THE SCORPION. Crocker was not successful in capturing him then and has a real vendetta now for seeing Alizadeh and his terrorist group extinguished. This book is a globe-trotting experience traveling from Thailand to Afghanistan, into South and Central America and on to Iran, with several stints back in the United States for recuperation and regrouping. The missions are grueling, hard-fought and unfortunately come with casualties. Don Mann's vast experience as a Navy SEAL himself lends much expertise to the writing of this series. There are several personal touches, which bring out issues faced by men and women returning from war. With veteran writer Ralph Pezzullo, Mr. Mann gives us a glimpse of the hardships of war and the fallout that results in this dynamic military thriller, HUNT THE FALCON.