A Dangerous Scotsman in Tajikistan

An American soldier called Robert Hamilton is kidnapped in Afghanistan, and taken over the border into Tajikistan. He manages to kill his captors, and get a short message out, which is picked up by an American military satellite. By the time an American team arrives there is no trace of the soldier, and the transmitter has been smashed.

Without help the soldier will die, but nobody knows where he is, and satellite searches fail to turn up anything useful. The soldier’s uncle, Frank Hamilton ...