First published 2006
A desperate Arab girl slips a coded message to a CIA operative near the Afghanistan border, then takes her own life. The world erupts before anyone can decode her warning. Pakistan's president dies in an assassination. The nation's nuclear arsenal vanishes. Al Qaeda fighters pour across the northern border. Israel mobilizes its military on maximum alert. CIA paramilitary operative Peter Zembeic receives an assignment that seems impossible: locate the stolen warheads and eliminate them before they can be used. He partners with his closest friend, a pilot who flies B-2 stealth bombers. Together they craft a last-chance operation to prevent nuclear terrorists from destroying countless lives. The clock runs down as Zembeic races against enemies who will stop at nothing to acquire the ultimate weapon.
Genres: military-fiction, adventure, suspense, action, espionage, political-thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: last-chance, race-against-time
Setting: Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan
Period: 21st-century
400 pages · Mass Market Paperback · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Content warnings: violence, war