2011. On a remote mountaintop overlooking the remains of the Iranian nuclear weapons programme, Azad Ashani watches a demonstration of a capability meant to upend America’s war in the Middle East. Ashani, Irene Kennedy’s back channel to the Iranian government, recognizes the demonstration’s true significance & the nation-ending conflict it will provoke. In Washington, DC, CIA director Irene Kennedy briefs the president that the operational window to kill or capture Osama bin Laden is rapidly closing. But before he’ll authorize a commando raid on Pakistani soil, the president demands irrefutable proof of bin Laden’s presence.
