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Critical Mass
Forge Books, February 2009
What would we do if a nuclear weapon was detonated in Washington, and the US government suddenly
disappeared? What would we do if a terrorist organization announced that it had concealed nuclear
weapons in every major western city and then demanded that the entire planet embrace its twisted
brand of Muslim fundamentalism?
In Critical Mass, nuclear interdiction expert James
Deutsch and his tormented Muslim wife, Nabila,
struggle to stop an impending nuclear attack on
an American city. Along the way, they delve deep
into the hidden world of nuclear terrorism and
the experts who strive to contain it, and get a
compelling look at the titanic battle within Islam
over its own future — fundamentalist and rejecting,
or compassionate and life-embracing?
Like Whitley Strieber’s classics Warday and
The Coming Global Superstorm, Critical Mass is torn straight from the dark pages of a very
dangerous and very possible future.
“Critical Mass is one hell of a book —
a frighteningly plausible conspiracy thriller that is
so real it sometimes feels like an exposé.”
—Douglass Preston,
New York Times Bestselling Author of Blasphemy
Pre-publication notes about Critical Mass (previously known as Midnight)
In an interview with John Hogue in Feb 2008, Whitley Strieber mentioned he is working on a new book about a nuclear bomb being set off in Washington DC.