At high noon on December 31st, 1999, the American flag was brought down for the last time from the flagpole located in front of the headquarters building at Howard Air Force Base. The twenty-fourth tactical wing, "Los Professionales" as their Latino friends had known them, had left without any fanfare or ceremony. They had served America's interests well by providing the United States Southern Command with the option, if necessary, to employ decisive air power in and around Latin America. When Jack Mahoney is consulted as to what posed the greatest threat to the Canal Zone, he replied without hesitation, "extraterrestrials." While there was no concrete evidence as of yet, there were several accounts of these strange beings, swirling lights in the sky, power surges, and loss of time. Will these extraterrestrials turn out to be friendly, or will they pose a threat to the Canal Zone that cannot be overcome? Friend or foe? When several of the alien life forms are found dead, Dr. Georgia Browne Mahoney, forensic scientist, hopes to uncover the answer before it's too late.
