The plot is not extraordinary. A former New York City police detective John Corey becomes aware of an American right-wing plot to nuke two U.S. cities. The idea is to provoke an existing government plan called Wild Fire that automatically responds to nuclear terrorism in the homeland with a nuclear attack that will wipe out most of the Middle East. Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, set off to find antiterrorist agent Harry Muller, who has disappeared after being assigned surveillance duties at the Custer Hill Club. The story is well told in DeMille style but the most interesting part is that the setting for the story is the famous Saranac Lake Resort called "the Point", hear named the "Custer Hill Club."

A fun, suspensful novel.