A fictional account of how the U.S. is open to annihilation by the use of surprisingly simple tactics. The book will not allow the reader to lay it down and say, "Thank God, it could never really happen." In this novel, an Iranian/Iraqi Coalition mounts an all or nothing bid to lay America low. A clever mass infection allows the Coalition to wage a war designed to bring the mightiest nation in the world to her knees. In college, Mike Thompson's microbiology studies lead him to befriend two Iranian students, Malik Aziz and Sadeq Nadim. The Ayatollah's rise to power unleashes a chain of events that pulls these men in different directions, eventually pitting them against each other in the most significant conflict the United States has ever witnessed. Semi-retired General Herndon has foreseen the coming events. He must now take charge of the military response, using only the scattered remnants of America's once powerful defenses. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has emerged as the one super power of the world. Nobody would dare attack the United States Sure, there will always be terrorist threats, but no nation could imagine conquering the U.S. A third world power could not even conceive of invading and defeating the mightiest nation in the history of the world. Presidents have confessed their fears and anxieties over a possible terrorist biological attack. The Pentagon has published reports stating how vulnerable we are to forms of terrorist attacks with biological agents. The problem is that our leadership is blinded to anything but a small-scale terror attack. No one can conceive that we could be surprised, our population decimated, and the survivors totally defeated. Unfortunately, it is possible.