The Day Before Midnight. A Novel

"A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen-given the possibility of an atomic 'given.' A wrap-up you'll never forget."-Robert LudlumThe countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site-a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block.
They want Jack Hummel to cut through it-so they can unleash a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. Now a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard must get inside South Mountain-by defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader .