A high-adrenaline, action-packed adventure thriller from the acclaimed author of CHIMERA. On a routine mission involving a sunken Soviet submarine in Cuban waters, wounded Special Forces veteran Jim Chapel, back in action thanks to medical technology, unexpectedly meets Nadia, a beautiful Russian agent. Nadia shares shocking intel about HYDRA, a forgotten Cold War supercomputer that controls hundreds of nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S. Just one failsafe error, and America will be obliterated. And there have been glitches in its programming . To disarm HYDRA before it plunges the U.S. into nuclear winter, Nadia and Chapel must infiltrate a secret base hidden deep in the steppes of Central Asia.