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New York Times Bestseller The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller it s an action-packed globe-spanning drama set in the present day. A compelling story and only too realistic. --Lawrence H. Summers former U.S. Treasury Secretary Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn t get fixed. So says Pauline Green president of the United States in Follett s nerve-racking drama of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election. Never is an extraordinary novel full of heroines and villains false prophets and elite wa