For thirty-year-old captain Scott McKay, the transport run from Miami to
Denver will give him the money he desperately needs to keep his
fledgling air cargo company flying. When a mysterious crate is
discovered on his plane, however, McKay is ordered to abandon his
present course and fly the crate and its owner, Vivian Henry, to
Washington, D.C., before going to Denver. McKay takes the forced detour
in stride--until a strange noise comes from deep inside the crate. It is
the voice of Vivian's husband, Dr. Rogers Henry, warning that the
shipment they are carrying is actually a fully armed Medusa device, a
thermonuclear bomb that can destroy every computer chip over an entire
continent, and blast the Silicon Age back to the Stone Age. And it is
set to go off within hours.
As panic spreads from the small community of nuclear scientists who used
to work for Dr. Rogers Henry to the White House and eventually to the
general public, a group of rogue military officers conspires to disobey
the President's orders and secure the technology of the Medusa device,
whatever the cost. Will Captain McKay and his crew trust their own
instincts to dispose of the bomb, or will they let a misguided
government dictate their actions?
