Mossad assassinations of Iranian nuclear experts, debilitating international sanctions, computer viruses tailored to disrupt uranium enrichment facilities, other acts of sabotage, and threats of all-out war by the U.S. escalate and push extremist rulers within the Islamic Republic of Iran to the point of frenzied desperation and insane impatience in their quest to construct the ultimate weapon of horror. Despite the risks of feeding Iran's ravenous appetite for plutonium, Nikolai Volkov of the Russian "mafiya" devises a plan to reap obscene profits by hijacking a cache of weapons-grade...