"In the skies above, the planes were consumed by the fireball. Out at sea, the Russian Admiral in charge of the flotilla steaming for Hungnam at flank speed was left to wonder at the mushroom cloud that rose up over the shore." A deadly weapon, built by the Japanese during World War II has been hidden and forgotten about at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. Lake, a covert operative for the US is now on a race with time against rogue militia terrorists to find and destroy this weapon before the terrorists in order to prevent a nuclear disaster of epic proportions. In Manchuria in 1945 a German U-Boat delivers the dying Reich's processed uranium. As Russian forces close in on the infamous Unit 731 Concentration Camp, the Japanese load one of the two bombs they've developed on a submarine bound for the United States. They detonate the other to destroy all evidence. Present day United States. Lake learns that various factions are all searching for something in the San Francisco area. Something powerful. Something deadly if in the wrong hands. Battling the Japanese Yakuza, North Korean agents, home-grown terrorists, and betrayal in his own organization, Lake must uncover the history the Japanese atomic bomb program in order to prevent certain disaster and an all out war. "