New Year’s Eve.

Manhattan is imprisoned motionless in a blizzard of ice and snow.

And there is a terrorist ultimatum:

$130 BILLION DOLLARS IN 48 HOURS, OR ELSE...

The world’s largest supertanker, 500,000 tons of black nitro and steel, is moored near the city.

Soon it will ignite in a volcano of atomic fury, engulfing Manhattan in a mushroom cloud of searing death and destruction.

That is, if no one can stop it.

Newly-elected mayor Ben Boyle, ex-plumber, a common sense man of uncommon courage, takes on the toughest job of all: negotiating with the world’s richest banks for money, and in a city of millions, he is searching for just one man.

Holed up in a sleazy Times Square hotel, the calculating Cherokee terrorist George Mahle waits.

Planned to perfection, he watches as, around him, New York begins to collapse.

Can Mayor Boyle succeed in defeating this arch-villain?

Or will the New Year begin and end abruptly with a cataclysmic crash?

Follow Ben Boyle’s race against time in this thrilling tale of deadly machinations, detailed drama and political scheming.

“TENSE, EXCITING ... expertly and vividly written.” - Columbus Dispatch

“A FAST-PACED THRILLER, as timely as the headlines."- John Barkham Reviews

“A MAJOR WORK that every city and inhabitant of the city can take a lesson from ... a well-written, well-developed novel.” - South Bend Tribune

Denis Pitts (January 6, 1930 – April 19, 1994) was a journalist, filmmaker, and novelist. He is also the author of ‘Rogue Hercules’ and ‘The Predator’.