In Texas, a dying billionaire tries to create Armageddon… In Washington, a general takes desperate measures to force politicians to confront the threat of Islamist terrorism… And in Russia, one drunken clerk knows where to find one hundred "e;missing"e; nuclear bombs. In Switzerland, assassin Samuel Carver lies helpless, his mind torn apart by torture until the woman he loves disappears. Plunged into a cauldron of conspiracy, he discovers the lives of millions are at stake.