How do you save the US President from himself? What if the President is incompetent to deal with the greatest crisis of all? Jack Ryan never thought he would have to ask those questions as, the world order changing, he prepares the ground for the Middle Eastern peace plan that, at last, might be the one to work. 
But too many groups have invested too much blood.  Shunned by their erstwhile Soviet sponsors, increasingly isolated by the realignment of the Mideast, these terrorists have one more desperate card to play, requiring a degree of ruthlessness never before seen.
With the world poised on the brink of nuclear war, Ryan and his FBI counterpart, Dan Murrary, frantically seek a solution before the chiefs of state lose control of themselves-and the world