"Joshua Jordan, a U.S spy-plane hero turned weapons designer, creates the world's most sophisticated missile defense system, code-named Return to Sender. Hoping to secure America against a brazen array of new enemies, Jordan finds himself trapped between international and domestic assailants. As world events begin setting the stage for the "end of days" foretole in Revelation, Jordan must consider not only the bibical prophecies preached by his wife's pastor, but the personal price he must pay if he is to save the nation he loves" --Cover, p. 4.