Following A Deeper Sleep her most successful Kate Shugak novel to date the Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling thriller writer Dana Stabenow delivers a nail-biting all-too-real novel of international suspenseA terrorist with a most personal grudge an FBI analyst challenged to be three steps ahead of the intelligence a Coast Guard captain assigned to keep watch on that very American of symbols from the water an astronaut who takes her job very seriouslythe paths of all of these characters converge on one clear morning in Florida NASA is preparing to launch the space shuttle this time with a high-paying visitor on board as a guest and the FBI and the Coast Guard are doing everything they can to help the launch go off without a hitch But one Pakistani man with a bottomless personal grudge and the commitment of many zealous men behind him is determined to strike back at the most visible target he can findOnce again Dana Stabenow who researched this gripping scenario by spending weeks living on board a Coast Guard cutter as it conducted its mission in the eastern Pacific delivers an action-driven thriller with an ingenious frightening straight-from-the-headlines plot certain to be her next bestseller.
