Cuba and Hong Kong

Cuba

Fidel Castro lies dying. Human sharks are circling. And one man has his finger on the trigger of a weapon that will change everything . . .

Admiral Jake Grafton is overseeing a shipment of nerve gas being transferred for a top-secret US stockpile at Guantanamo Bay. But a power struggle inside Cuba has ignited an explosive plot and turned a horrific new weapon on the US. Now, Jake must strap himself into the cockpit of a new generation of American aircraft and fly blind into the heart of an island that is about to blow—and take the whole world with it . . .

Hong Kong

Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the US government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the US consul-general—Jake's old friend Tiger Cole—is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. They quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse . . . and Cole is right in the middle of the action.

When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. In order to save his wife Jake Grafton must figure out who he can trust—both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation, and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future—and make sure the right side wins.