A gripping novel by the well-known foreign author Tom Clancy, dedicated to the struggle between Washington and Moscow’s intelligence agents against international terrorism and terrorists’ attempts to start a Third World War.
An atomic bomb lost in the Middle East during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war failed to detonate when it fell. It exploded two decades later—somewhere else entirely. And along with it, the entire planet was supposed to fly into the air. That’s exactly what the terrorists wanted. They factored everything into their calculations—above all, the level of mutual distrust between the superpowers bristling with nuclear missile palisades—but they forgot that there are people in the world like John Ryan, Deputy Director of the U.S. CIA...