ABOUT THE BOOK

Bin Laden’s avengers destroy Las Vegas with a North Korean nuke but shrewdly don’t claim it. The detonation hurls President Rick Martin into a universe that defies his humanism and demands self-sacrifice. Rick habitually buries emotions, sheltering behind rationality. He’s confident that will still work but he’s dead wrong, as no one knows better than his wife, Graciella [Ella] Dominguez Martin—except perhaps her old lover—former Marine general now congressman, Ray Morales. Rick, a man of intelligence, optimism, and vaulting ambition; Ella, whose childhood amidst Mexico’s drug wars taught her confronting well-armed evil demands anger’s fierce, enabling energy; and Ray, who knows that duty—like unconditional love—demands sacrifice, face America’s trial by nuclear terrorism.

“Doug Norton’s Code Word series will keep you up at night, even after you’ve finished reading.”

—Matthew Palmer, author of Enemy of the Good