James DeFelice

In the year 2014, with the world torn by climate change and economic and geopolitical chaos, the Chinese premier reacts to mass riots by marching on traditional Chinese enemies through Southeast Asia, while the United States struggles to prevent a nuclear war.

In Hanoi, CIA officer Mara Duncan uses every method necessary to accomplish her mission--to get scientist Josh MacArthur and a seven-year-old witness to Chinese atrocities in Vietnam out of the country safely.