Cate Farmer has just completed her second term as Governor of Washington State. Her husband, Senator Robert Sebastian, is running for President of the United States, and he is the frontrunner in the Republican Presidential Primary race when the plane he is on crashes killing him and his senior campaign staff.Cate is devastated by her husband's death, but she picks up the tattered pieces of his campaign and wins the Republican nomination for President of the United States. She goes on to defeat the incumbent President and during the transition period, the outgoing President informs her that terrorists are trying to get a nuclear bomb into the Unites States.Sharif bin-Abdallah runs the Black Wednesday terrorist organization with an iron fist. He has a shrewd plan to infiltrate teams of terrorists into the United States where they will rendezvous with a nuclear bomb that is being brought into the country by other means.President Cate Farmer and her Administration must stop a plot that they don't know when it will happen, where it will happen, or how many are involved. And, it must be accomplished without the American people finding out, because if they knew that a nuclear bomb was heading for the East Coast, millions of people would try to escape and the resulting panic could cost thousands of lives.
