A graduate student stumbles across an insidious plot to unleash nuclear
terror on America's greatest cities in a blood-chillingly prescient tale
from one of thriller fiction's 20th-century masters.
Personable, good looking, and a whiz at physics, graduate student Allan
Diffenduffer "Duff" Bogan has a bright future ahead of him. But while
staying at the home of an invalid widow in Florida, Duff makes a
discovery that freezes his blood: a cache of uranium hidden in the
locked closet of a fellow guest. The FBI is initially skeptical, but
Duff knows all too well what his findings portend. Suddenly, not only is
his future in jeopardy, but the fate of millions of Americans hangs in
the balance as well. If he cannot expose the horrific plot his nation's
enemies set in motion years before, entire cities will be reduced to
piles of radioactive rubble in an unthinkable nuclear nightmare
stretching from coast to coast. And time, it seems, is rapidly running
out.
