Stargate Command is in crisis - too many teams wounded, too many dead. Tensions are running high and, with the pressure to deliver tangible results never greater, General Hammond is forced to call in the Pentagon strike team to plug the holes. But help has its price. When the team's leader, Colonel Dave Dixon, arrives at Stargate Command, he brings with him loyalties that tangle dangerously with a past Colonel Jack O'Neill would prefer to forget.
