RAMROD

Maxwell Hugo knows he went wrong somewhere. He made a decent start as a helicopter pilot, dressed in snazzy blue, but thirty years later he finds himself jobless on a military base in Afghanistan, his pants splashed with mud. After a car journey through the contested countryside, he's offered a position leading ex-Soviet pilots, who he later learns are alcoholics to a man. It's a career decision that begs regret because nothing perpetuates a wobbly professional arc like running an aviation ...