A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general’s devastating threat in the New York Times-bestselling author’s acclaimed technothriller series.Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock-it’s all in a day’s work for the men and women of Deep Black.But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general’s second plot. The military madman’s ruse-a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas, a bomb that only he can rescue . . . and control.When the general and his plot are exposed, the NSA concludes the greatest threat is over. But in fact, it’s only just beginning . . .