Journalist Nate Adams hadn't worked for Global News Weekly since he was forced to resign by a cutthroat young editor on his way to the top. When a former colleague, Karl, reaches out years later and asks him to return and investigate a story about radical Islamic terrorists gaining tactical nuclear weapons, Nate is sure he's just being baited. Terrorists accessing nukes, spreading fear, and actually creating a new Islamic caliphate in Europe seem highly improbable. But the magazine has a familiar source, and the potential story is too intriguing to pass up.

Along with his...