Written by a Swiss - born French journalist, this fantastic novel will take the reader into a plausible air attack on New York… long before September 11th, 2001.

The American military experts were ready for everything except what actually happened... And because military strategists had never envisaged such a possibility, their formidable defence machinery, which was thought to be able to detect, then neutralize, any nuclear attack coming from any part of the globe, was suddenly powerless... The aircraft was flying inexorably towards its target - New York - and the Generals in the Pentagon were helpless.

 

Not only did they not know where the plane was coming from, but thirty seconds before the explosion they were not even sure of its cargo.

 

The author gives a graphic account of every stage of this hideously plausible operation, which started in Peking with a group of dissident Chinese Colonels who found the cultural revolution was not quite enough.