It is history's first act of nuclear terrorism, and it threatens to tilt the world beyond reckoning. Months later, surfer and lifeguard Jamie Palmer is patrolling his domain, a treacherous stretch of wild California coast, when he responds to a mysterious nearshore boating accident that jettisoned two people overboard.
It is history's first act of nuclear terrorism, and it threatens to tilt the world beyond reckoning.
Months later, surfer and lifeguard Jamie Palmer is patrolling his domain, a treacherous stretch of wild California coast, when he responds to a mysterious nearshore boating accident that jettisoned two...
The victims turn out to be Palmer's best friend—a brilliant, renegade Stanford University professor—and the man's teenage son, Luca.
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It is history's first act of nuclear terrorism, and it threatens to tilt the world beyond reckoning. Months later, surfer and lifeguard Jamie Palmer is patrolling his domain, a treacherous stretch of wild California coast, when he responds to a mysterious nearshore boating accident that jettisoned two people overboard. The victims turn out to be Palmer's best friend—a brilliant, renegade Stanford University professor—and the man's teenage son, Luca.
A "small" nuclear bomb detonates beside an Appalachian highway. The weapon's explosive yield is meager, the death count blessedly low. The professor drowns, Luca survives—leaving Palmer as the boy's guardian.
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