Intelligence indicates that the bomb has been smuggled out of
Pakistan and is en route to the US, with Washington or New York the
likely target. Yet this information is but an elaborate decoy and, as
the CIA focuses on thwarting a domestic attack, the weapon moves ever
closer to its true target.
Agent Brooke Chandler senses the deception. Chandler, a
once-prodigious field operative ravaged by the memories of loved-ones
lost, thinks he understands how the bomb is being transported, and has
an idea how to locate it. First he must convince his superiors of his
conviction, and then, before it is too late, find and disable the threat.
If he fails, millions will die, and the world map as we know it will
become a collectors item.
p>A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world,
promising a major attack on a US city to mark the tenth anniversary of 9
August 2011. An Al Qaeda operative masterminds the theft of a
Pakistani military weapon: a two-hundred-pound nuclear warhead,
capable of causing destruction on an unprecedented scale. <
11.
Intelligence indicates that the bomb has been smuggled out of
Pakistan and is en route to the US, with Washington or New York the
likely target. Yet this information is but an elaborate decoy and, as
the CIA focuses on thwarting a domestic attack, the weapon moves ever
closer to its true target.
Agent Brooke Chandler senses the deception. Chandler, a
once-prodigious field operative ravaged by the memories of loved-ones
lost, thinks he understands how the bomb is being transported, and has
an idea how to locate it. First he must convince his superiors of his
conviction, and then, before it is too late, find and disable the threat.
If he fails, millions will die, and the world map as we know it will
become a collectors item.
p>A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world,
promising a major attack on a US city to mark the tenth anniversary of 9
August 2011. An Al Qaeda operative masterminds the theft of a
Pakistani military weapon: a two-hundred-pound nuclear warhead,
capable of causing destruction on an unprecedented scale. <
