from 1 new york times bestselling author nelson demille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring detective john corey and an alltooplausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb in two major american cities welcome to the custer hill cluban informal mens club set in a luxurious adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of americas most powerful business leaders military men and government officials ostensibly the club is a place to gather with old friends hunt eat drink and talk offtherecord about war life death sex and politics but one fall weekend the executive board of the custer hill club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 911 and what america must do to retaliate their plan is finalized and set into motion that same weekend a member of the federal antiterrorist task force is reported missing his body is soon discovered in the woods near the custer hill clubs game reserve the death appears to be a hunting accident and thats how the local police first report it but detective john corey has his doubts as he digs deeper he begins to unravel a plot involving the custer hill club a topsecret plan known only by its code name wild fire racing against the clock detective corey and his wife fbi agent kate mayfield find they are the only people in a position to stop the button from being pushed and chaos from being unleashed