What if Blaine can trust nobody so works his plan only with the President?

Blaine needs to pull the levers of power, putting his thumb on the global nuclear scale. Too little, nothing stops. Too much, nuclear missiles are fueling in China...

Captain Nally aboard the US submarine makes a startling discovery of a tactic last used in World War II and stunningly effective except for an unexpected explosion by a Japanese faction.

The Sleeper agent network comes to light, bringing with it insight and more danger.

The Chinese rivalry has morphed into a blatant power move in the Chinese Communist Politburo which might send China reeling from modernity back into the grim past of its Revolutionary executions on a grand scale.

Blaine realizes that his plan is a tumble of the dice, playing with the lives of millions and all beholden to his intuition of coloring so far outside the lines that the lines are only a blur on a map.

The Russian mercenary has calculated the chess moves like Kasparov, willing the Americans and Chinese to annihilate each other.

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