Book #9 in the Jake Adams series.
Jake Adams is pulled from vacation to testify before Congress and even as the uproar over his statements is heating up, he is sent west to find a missing college professor who has technology that could make nuclear weapons passé.
In a cameo appearance at the end of the adventure taking place at the funeral of his friend and ofttimes lover, Toni Contardo, Adams meets her grown son, Karl, and learns that Jake is biological father.