"This book is the minute-by-minute re-creation both of Hambleton's harrowing twelve-day ordeal on the ground and of the desperate, heroic efforts of his would-be rescuers to keep from falling into the hands of the enemy. Based in part on COL Hambelton's personal narrative and in part on recently declassified Air Force documents, this is a tale of shattering suspense, made doubly compelling because it is true."