How does a celebratory toast in his boss's office on the top floor of an obscure South American bank lead an over-the-hill American into rapid-fire encounters with Maoist terrorists, Russian mutineers and the Third Directorate of the People's Republic? Victor Bolles' first novel leads the reader across the Andean mountains and the Russian tundra in a desperate effort to track down stolen Russian nukes before they fall into the hands of terrorists determined to up the ante of nuclear blackmail. The lives of innocents mean nothing to these determined fanatics in their quest to free their captured leader. The fight for survival forces our unlikely hero to forget his mundane problems in order to assist the CIA in blocking this plot before it leads to the shores of America.