The Day Before Midnight - Stephen Hunter

"A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen—given the possibility of an atomic 'given.' A wrap-up you'll never forget."—Robert Ludlum

The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site—a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists.

All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it—so they can unleash a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster.

Now a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard must get inside South Mountain—by defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader . . .

. . . while Jack Hummel's torch burns closer and closer to the launch key . . . while the clock ticks closer to midnight—and Armageddon.

Praise for The Day Before Midnight

"Rockets toward a shattering climax like an incoming missile." —Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder and Final Flight

"Nonstop action and mounting tension." —The New York Times Book Review

"Slam-bang action and relentless suspense." —The Washington Post

"The novel crackles and jolts." —Chicago Tribune

"The one to beat this year in the nail-biter class . . . an edge-of-the-seat doomsday countdown thriller." —Daily News, New York