Off the coast of Africa lie the beautiful Canary Islands, a resort
destination of millionaires. Underneath this idyllic paradise is one of
the most volatile fault lines in the world. There, an alliance between
radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government
is planning to unleash an act of unimaginable geological terrorism that
could devastate the U.S. East Coast, striking it with waves up to a
thousand feet high. They plan to set off nuclear devices to precipitate
a gigantic landslide that will send a death-dealing tsunami across the
Atlantic. In the Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan, twelve nuclear
warheads stolen by the Russian Mafia are about to be smuggled out of the
country and delivered into the hands of the conspirators. Charlie and
Ilya go on an intercept mission, but before they can retrieve them, the
weapons vanish. Meanwhile, in a hotel in New Jersey, a bestselling
author is assassinated to prevent the release of his
stranger-than-fiction story about an Islamic plot to change the course
of history. Lia, Charlie's girlfriend, is sent to Berlin to infiltrate
the empire of a ruthless Chinese billionaire whose machinations have
come to the attention of the NSA. She risks immediate execution if her
true identity is revealed. Their paths all converge in the Canary
Islands. Unless the Deep Black team intervenes, the islands could be the
epicenter of an apocalypse, with millions of lives and the entire world
order at stake.
