0-446-19957-5/978-0-446-19957-5
$25.00 (In Canada: $29.00)
448 pages; 6 x 9

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The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the mastermind of a vast clandestine enterprise that sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, Iraq, and South Africa.

Khan's loose-knit organization was a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, and the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Khan proved that the existing international safeguards no longer worked. Amazingly, American authorities could have halted his operation, but they chose instead to allow it to continue.

Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins tell this alarming tale of international intrigue through the eyes of the European and American officials who suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately captured him, after the nuclear genie had been unleashed.