Presumed Dead is a high-velocity thriller set in the treacherous capitals of Washington and Paris, and in the unforgiving jungles of Laos. Twenty years ago David Hunter, an African-American, now an admiral in the U.S. Navy, was forced to make a damnable decision: two of his best friends, white navy pilots Bradford and Wyatt Craig, had been shot down on the last day of the Vietnam War, and he alone had to choose which friend would live or die. ...