Red Mercury: A Novel

The Story

Atlanta, Georgia, July, 1996. The Centennial Olympic Games. A homemade pipe bomb goes off in Centennial Park and makes international news. But behind the scenes the U.S. Government discovers a stash of stolen weapons-grade plutonium whose radioactive trail leads right to downtown Atlanta. Mack McFall, the brilliant leader of NEST, the U.S. government's secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, leads a massive hunt for the stolen plutonium. His partner is special agent Kyle Preston, the bureau's highest ranking female field officer, squad leader of the elite FBI Olympic Counter-Terrorist Task Force.