Number three in the Chance Lyon military adventure series. Shortly after the sitting President of the United States is assassinated while attending a diplomatic reception in the People's Republic of China, the new President, Rachel Hunter, a former Director of National Intelligence, through a top-secret intelligence asset learns of a plot by North Korea to perpetrate a diabolical act of nuclear terror against the United States. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chance Lyon and his five-person team of paramilitary professionals are dispatched by the CIA and FBI to clandestinely enter a friendly neighboring country and rendezvous with a mysterious CIA intelligence asset known only to a select few in the National Security echelon of the United States. Using this asset, Lyon's plan is to infiltrate and checkmate the team of North Korean terrorists before they can move a nuclear warhead into the United States and detonate it. In a stunning twist, Lyon's FBI masters learn that a group of Islamist plotters also have knowledge of the presence of the warhead the North Koreans have hidden and are determined to seize it to use in their own terrorist plan. Lyon's elite team is suddenly tasked with dealing with dual, competing terrorist threats. As the clock ticks toward the ultimate climax, Chance Lyon and his team devise a risk-infused paramilitary operation to simultaneously take down both terrorist cells and foil their plans without their counter-terrorism operation becoming known to the foreign government where it is taking place or any news media. Lyon's team, using top-secret human and electronic intelligence assets race against the clock toward a startling confrontation with a nuclear threat just miles and hours before it can become a horrendous fact. Failure is not an option.