"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