The first novel in the National Interest series is, first and foremost, a suspense and action-adventure novel. When two simultaneous attacks with weapons of mass destruction occur on each coast of the United States, accompanied by several large-scale conventional attacks in a number of cities across the country, a young computer prodigy and entrepreneur, Samantha Chang, and a United States Navy special operations (SEAL) officer, Jack Callahan, are brought together by a mutual friend and thrown headlong into a chilling mystery, which they must work to help solve before the crisis spins utterly out of control.