With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But, who bought them? And, what is their intended target?
Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in major American cities before the election. They call on intelligence expert Ray Bowman to prevent the attack. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he follows a trail across the world to track down the missing nukes. Along the way, he discovers that the people who now control the bombs intend to do something much more devastating than expected, something that it will make nuking a few cities look like a mild attack.
Drawing on his decades of experience at the highest levels of national security, Richard A. Clarke's Pinnacle Event-the Pentagon code for a nuclear threat-is a gripping international thriller told from the rare vantage point of a true Washington insider.
"Clarke delivers an edge-of-your-seat race across the planet that keeps you guessing until the very end."
KYLE MILLS
"An engrossing and captivating story. Richard A. Clarke's gripping and explosive novel, Pinnacle Event is based on South Africa's secret nuclear weapons program. This fascinating yet frightening account on how the apartheid regime built nuclear weapons, secretly stored and sold them was written with methodical historical accuracy. Only a professional government insider with Clarke's unique credentials would have the expertise to write such an accurate account of this secret program."
DON MANN, author of Inside SEAL Team Six
"Where Sting of the Drone stands above the rest, and what makes it important for those who have a tendency to shy away from this genre, is in its level of detail.…This is riveting reading."
