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A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.

This book tells the story of an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent...

An American aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea is sunk by a nuclear torpedo with the loss of 6,000 hands. The U.S. retaliates with an attack on an Iranian submarine base, but as Lieutenant Commander Billy Baldridge discovers the real culprit is a lone Iraqi submariner, a far more elusive terrorist.

An FBI agent and a Special Operations interrogator must force a terrorist suspect to divulge the locations of three nuclear weapons that are set to detonate somewhere in the United States.

Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., finds her new life in the San Juan Islands of Washington state turned upside down when her client is murdered. The trail leads to a deadly terrorist plot and involves her with nuclear expert Gideon Van Ry, a former UN arms inspector who discovers two nuclear missiles are missing from their depot in Russia. He traces them to a U.S. militia group on the Pacific Coast and Navy SEALs mount an...

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time — the spread of nuclear weapons — written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong...

"The first in a new military thriller series from the NYT bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon."-- Eric Steele is an elite clandestine operative assigned to a US intelligence unit known simply as the "Program." Having served several tours fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele now operates under the radar, using a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his enemies and neutralize them. When a man from his...

It is America's worst nightmare: A nuclear bomb destroys a major city. Thousands of Americans are dead and many more will die from radiation poisoning. Threats promising more attacks spread through the media. Panic has broken out in many cities. How could American intelligence have failed to detect a nuclear device? Who is responsible for the blast? Sean Falcone, national security advisor, is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers....