A hurricane is bearing down on south Florida. So is a storm of fanaticism and violence. The small Florida key called Ocho Puertos is ground zero, but the ultimate target is just to the south. It's all part of a scheme engineered by a rogue right-winger with his own private army. If these guardians of freedom get their way, the world will be changed forever.

From master storyteller Ed McBain comes this blockbuster novel of a few courageous people who fight against a brutal plot. And the plotters will stop at nothing and spare no lives to get what they want: a world-shaking fireball of war