James Gordion is the survivor of a scientific team devastated by nuclear fallout from the atomic weapons dropped on Pakistan by India in 2014. Now, in 2016, Professor Gordion struggles with disease and a doomsday clock in his Texas environmental science laboratories. He is on the verge of saving the world from the grips of a two-year-long nuclear winter, but the cancer from his radiation poisoning may take him first. His greatest support is from a DARPA agent-his brother Phillip's former lover. Phillip Gordion dies in a freak car accident in Washington D.C. as the agent, James Allen, welcomes...