In 1945, Isawa Nakamura lost his mother and father to the nuclear maelstrom that was Hiroshima. Three days later his wife and child died in Nagasaki, and he himself was horribly burned. Now-forty-five years later-nothing will stop his dream of revenge. He has gathered a cadre of out-of-work Eastern Bloc assassins. Building his own atomic bombs, he plans to inflict the same hellfire on Los Angeles and San Francisco that destroyed his family. Enter Kirk McGarvey, CIA assassin and America’s top agent. When McGarvey’s girlfriend is killed by one of Nakamura’s agents, McGarvey is soon hard on his...