While the world reels from Russia’s overtures in its former Republics and the Middle East falls into turmoil, terrorist cells disappear overnight from Europe after meeting with a Russian suspected of dealing in unconventional arms. Appearing in the United States through its southern border, multiple attacks on America’s vulnerable infrastructure threaten to return the United States to eighteenth-century conditions. Zach Greer, of the FBI and Elle Hardwick, a striking CIA operative, race to thwart the next attack as the United States confronts a new understanding of the importance of water to twenty-first-century civilization.
CIA agents are being systematically hunted for elimination throughout Europe as they close in on the identity of the Iranian-linked group tied to nuclear terrorism against US infrastructure. As Washington marches toward war with Iran, Zach Greer and Elle Hardwick return from the novel Threatened Waters to uncover a group so powerful that many of the events of the last half-century may be tied to them. Governments and markets are being manipulated threatening a worldwide conflict between Russia, Iran, ISIS, and the US. Religious, economic, and political alliances are not what they seem.
1987, the “Tanker War” escalates in the Gulf as the Iran-Iraq War moves into its 7th year. Tankers and their escorts are attacked crashing the world’s markets. Black Monday. 2010, the unexplained Flash Crisis nearly triggers a global recession. And two years ago, nuclear terrorism against America’s vulnerable water and electrical infrastructure triggers recession and massive loss of life. Now, an attack by a rogue North Korean artillery base decimates Seoul. All the attacks are traced to one organization, led by men who hide in plain sight – a group so powerful that many of the events of the last half-century may be tied to them. Elle Hardwick isn’t the standard CIA operative and her means and methods aren’t conventional.
As the attacks escalate, the world’s intelligence agencies are compromised. For Elle Hardwick, the solution is simple, go dark from Langley before the group launches an attack that will push the world into economic ruin. Hours are all that Elle has as she hunts them across the globe and ultimately into the White House.
