The Day Before Midnight

"A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happengiven the possibility of an atomic 'given.' A wrap-up you'll never forget."Robert Ludlum

The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile sitea 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 itso 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 Mountainby defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader . . .

. . . while Jack Hummel's torch burns closer and closer to the launch key . . . while the clock ticks closer to midnightand Armageddon.

Praise for The Day Before Midnight

"Rockets toward a shattering climax like an incoming missile."Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder and Final Flight

"Nonstop action and mounting tension."The New York Times Book Review

"Slam-bang action and relentless suspense."The Washington Post

"The novel crackles and jolts."Chicago Tribune

"The one to beat this year in the nail-biter class . . . an edge-of-the-seat doomsday countdown thriller."Daily News, New York

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