Following the Cuban missile crisis Nikita Khrushchev devised a plot that guaranteed he would never have to back down from a confrontation with the United States. Nikita was removed from power without the scheme ever being revealed. Forty years later Alexander Maloskov reads his father's papers and recognized a means of become one of the richest men in Russia. The result is a mushrooming plan of danger and intrigue that places the United States and the World on a path to World War III and massive destruction. The CIA's special operations leader, Gavin Carson, skillfully links a series of events to a new terrorist group that has openly threatened the President of the US and has unleashed a horrific nuclear explosion in Karachi, Pakistan. The life and death race to track the terrorists, the weapons and the targets within the United States will keep you on the edge of your seat.