An effective, unorthodox cop before his "retirement," Phil Broker is racing north to the heart of the Cold War nuclear missile belt - and heading toward an inevitable confrontation with his long-estranged wife, Nina Pryce.
A tough, decorated veteran of the first Gulf War and renegade anti-terrorist operative, Nina has dragged their daughter, Kit, into a potentially explosive situation, and Broker is desperate to get his child out. But something even more terrifying is taking shape in this isolated corner of North Dakota: the mad dream of a damaged psychopath determined to wash a hated nation in the blood of countless innocents. And for Broker, for Nina, for America, the clock is ticking down - because doomsday is closer than anyone imagines.
