Taming the Sword by Paul Barber

IN THIS BLOCKBUSTER NOVEL, READERS WILLRECOIL WHEN THEY SEE THE UNITED STATESBROUGHT TO ITS KNEESWHEN THEY GRIPPING AMERICA~The threat hung over America for years, then it terrorists explode an EMP nuclear weapon high over the United States. Gamma rays destroy the nations power grids and America goes dark. Those on life support die. Airliners crash, their flight control circuits fried. Home appliances fail. As production, transportation, and communication lines collapse, friends and neighbors fight over the dwindling supply of food, water, and medicine. Deaths soar and angry Americans demand a permanent end to terrorism. A high-risk mission is readied, then former CIA Agent Taylor Ramsey is summoned, the only person the President trusts to lead a perilous voyage back centuries in time, back to the very roots of terrorism; the only person the President knows, wholl give all for one last chance to serve his country.