Rainbow Dash, student pilot, gets drunk one night and finds herself shanghai'd into working for a mercenary company in Africa. She can leave...just as soon as she flies one hundred combat missions.
Civil war is well underway, and warlord factions fight to control the gold-rich country of Talongo. Both sides are well supplied, accelerating into an arms race. Rainbow wanted to be a fighter pilot, but not like this, not flying for her life against killers for hire on both sides of the war.
Going home is her goal, but first she has to survive.