A Deadlier Breed

Beijing has quietly armed jihadist operatives with five tactical nuclear weapons — and five American cities are on the target list. A conventional response would mean public panic, market collapse, and war. An unconventional president chooses an unconventional answer: wake the Dogs, and keep it off the books.

What follows is a silent, continent-spanning hunt in which the hunters cannot be seen, the clock cannot be stopped, and failure cannot be survived.