The second in the series which began with stunning debut The Accident Man in 2007. ncluded in the 2008 Father's Day bin - Hotter than a smoking gun On 7 September 1997, General Alexander Lebed, former National Security Advisor to Russia s President Yeltsin, appeared on prime-time American television. He revealed that his government no longer knew the whereabouts of one hundred of their own small-scale nuclear weapons, commonly described as suitcase nukes . s Samuel Carver lies helpless in a Swiss sanatorium, the world is plunging into a new age of conflict, driven by religious fanaticism. n Texas, a dying billionaire, terrified by the prospect of his imminent demise, dreams of creating his own personal Armageddon In Afghanistan and Kosovo, ruthless terrorists plot the downfall of their hated enemies And in Russia, one drunken clerk knows where to find those missing bombs. hen Carver awakes from his months of torment to find that the woman he loves has disappeared, he sets out to find her. But that personal quest plunges him into a deadly cauldron of conspiracy and betrayal in which the lives of millions are at stake. nce again, the worlds of fact and fiction collide