The Day Before Midnight - Stephen Hunter - Bog

"A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen-given the possibility of an atomic 'given.' A wrap-up you'll never forget."-Robert LudlumThe countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site-a 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 it-so 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 Mountain-by 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 midnight-and 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