When an unidentified drone crashes in Antarctica, and the research station nearby stops communicating, Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron are sent to investigate--but their job is complicated by a Russian special forces team, and an officer of Phantom Cell who is more interested in the device than the safety of the American scientists.

Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross and his Shadow Squadron are assigned to extract a rogue CIA agent from Iran, but the agent claims he had to sever communications in order to complete his mission to create discord between two separate terrorist groups--and he wants the Shadow Squadron to help him.

The Secretary of State's plane has gone down in the Central African Republic, Intelligence says he is currently in the hands of a bunch of child soldiers, and Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross and his Shadow Squadron are assigned to rescue him--but the situation is more complicated than Cross has been led to believe.

In their new mission the Shadow Squadron is faced with a diplomatic nightmare--a Chinese oil rig in Cuban waters has been taken over by American mercenaries who are holding the workers hostage, and it is up to Ryan Cross and his men to get there before the Cuban military, and avoid an international incident.