On a quiet park bench in Manhattan--just miles from the ruins of the
World Trade Center--a spymaster delivers a chilling secret message to
Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to
a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends
to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the
apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and
the Muslim world. After passing the message on to his peers, Grafton is
charged by the president with assembling a secret team to find the
warheads before America's population centers are consumed by a nuclear
holocaust.
As he hunts for terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in
power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors,
anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don't all
come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They
masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president's ear.
With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out
all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad
Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to
assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon.
