No Old, Bold Pilots

Some patients are not meant to be found.

Daniel Helman has barely begun his medical internship at Wilford Hall, an Air Force training hospital, when he is assigned to a locked psychiatric unit for the seriously mentally ill. The work is grueling, the cases grim. But one patient doesn't belong. His records don't add up. His identity doesn't hold.

As Helman digs deeper, he uncovers a trail that leads far beyond the ward, back through the rigid corridors of the Air Force Academy and into a burie...