A lost Israeli weapon ends up in the wrong hands and detonates in Denver, and the back half is about how two governments talk themselves toward a nuclear exchange over a thing neither of them did.
The escalation sequence is the best thing in the Clancy run I read. Nobody is stupid. Every individual decision is defensible given what that person knows, and the aggregate is nearly the end of the world.
Read April 1991, alongside Patriot Games.
