When it is discovered that Iran is weeks away from having operational nuclear weapons and starting a brutal holy war, CIA agents Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton begin a world-saving race against time.

Elevated to the head of the CIA when his predecessor is assassinated, Jake Grafton races against time to halt a conspiracy involving a nuclear weapon hidden by Chinese sleeper agents at Norfolk, Virginia's massive naval base.

When radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government plot a geological attack on a major fault line, Lia travels to Berlin to infiltrate a ruthless billionaire's operation at the same time a best-selling author is assassinated.