Raptor's Watch. The Stratton Direct Action Files, #2

They were sent to clean up a crash - instead they uncovered a powder keg. When a covert F-35 mission over Iran ends with critical technology lost deep in enemy territory, Master Sergeant Travis Cade and his ODA team are sent on a black operation that officially doesn't exist. Their task: recover or destroy the downed stealth systems before Iran, Russia, or China can claim them. But what begins as a recovery mission spirals into a deadly game of shadows, betrayal, and buried secrets. A race against time.
A mission no one is supposed to survive. Cut off behind enemy lines, Cade and his men must navigate brutal terrain, rival hunters, and double-dealing allies as they close in on the wreckage. What they uncover threatens more than national security - it could ignite a global conflict. And when the true stakes emerge, Cade is forced to question everything, including his orders.