Incommunicado for months as part of a top-secret Delta anti-terrorist operation, Nina suddenly emerges in a town in the heart of the old Minuteman II missile belt. When Broker arrives, he immediately discovers that the legacy of those warheads still casts a sinister shadow across the desolate north border country, in the person of a damaged psychopath.
Broker discovers he's been drawn into an elaborate con-within-a-con and made an unwitting participant in a black-bag anti-terrorist detail. But his anger toward Nina for involving him and putting their daughter at risk quickly fades as a larger, more deadly reality becomes evident. With time running out, husband and wife unite with local North Dakota law enforcement to form a last line of defense against a brilliantly simple act of espionage with potentially catastrophic consequences.
©2004 Chuck Logan; (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
"An unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters, and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together." (Publishers Weekly)
"Hard-edged and gripping...The nuclear plot is ingenious, and its final countdown is a nail-biter." (The Washington Post)