A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at
gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it
seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable
is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized
by a terrorist attack.
Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from
the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end
may be something worse--far worse--than mere Armageddon.