The First Casualty

Armed with a powerful laser, a terrorist group threatens the US—and one government agent must race to recover the weapon before it’s too late

Air France Flight 447 is high above the Atlantic, making its way through a patch of turbulence, when its instruments begin to fail. Pilot and crew fight to regain control as the plane plummets from the sky, but death comes before they even hit the water. When investigators pick through the wrecked aircraft and desiccated bodies, they can reach only one...