The Delamar Incident

Based on intelligence reports, President James Nelson Weber is extremely concerned about several nuclear attacks being launched simultaneously at the United States in the coming days. His only option to prevent such a catastrophe is to order preemptive strikes using the laser beam and particle-beam weapon systems the US secretly built and placed into space ten years earlier.

His problem is twofold: if he acts without absolute proof that nuclear attacks are imminent, he becomes the aggressor--a warmonger. And if he uses the space weapons, the highly advanced system's extensive capabilities and efficiency will become known to the entire world. Even so, he'll do whatever is necessary to protect the United States. A major deterrent, however, is the possibility that he could trigger a global conflict, which otherwise might not even happen.

Weber decides that he must be 100 percent certain in advance. Since there's only one way he can be and only one person who can truly help him with that, he calls upon Secret Service Agent H. Hunter Mahoy. Mahoy will embark on a dangerous and highly classified mission to gather the irrefutable proof the president needs. But before he can do so, Weber's helicopter--Marine One--is shot down over Southern Nevada. It crash-lands in a remote area where Weber, along with his wife and daughter, are kidnapped.

Agent Mahoy's already nearly impossible assignment has suddenly become exponentially more difficult. He now has to find a way to save the presidential family and prevent a nuclear war in the span of less than a week's time.