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In his debut novel, Code Name: Juggernaut, Sherman Ross writes a political thriller woven around domestic terrorism. Dismissed from the military because of repeated clashes with the government Howard Brennan, a bitter and deranged former Air Force colonel and nuclear engineer skilled in nuclear weapons design, harbors deep resentment for those he blames for destroying his career. The charismatic Brennan — a man with a Hitlerian, almost hypnotic style of persuasion — commands a loose-knit neo-Nazi terrorist group, the Werewolf. With its operatives in his thrall, Brennan launches a right-wing terrorist plot to steal plutonium and other components of a nuclear device in order to build a bomb, a weapon of personal vengeance to be deployed to Washington, D.C. just blocks from the Capitol on the night of the State of the Union address. He has given the weapon its operational code name: Juggernaut.

Brennan’s murderous paramour, Jacqueline Lynch (alias “the Jack-L”), herself a former Marine, is a seductive, efficient assassin who assists him at every turn. Together, and with the aid of a band of associates, they blaze a trail of murder and terror.

Brennan’s nettlesome adversary, FBI Special Agent Douglas Rabson slowly uncovers elements of the plot. It’s personal for Rabson, who holds close the memory of a fellow agent brutally murdered by Werewolf operatives. Rabson painstakingly analyzes a series of clues to the plot and feverishly works against the clock to prevent its fruition, often at odds with his superiors. Code Name: Juggernaut taps powerfully into the headline issues of political unrest, racism, antisemitism, radicalization and the terrifying specter of terrorism in the nuclear age, with a narrative as relentless and of-the-moment as the headlines you haven’t read…yet.