Chance Lyon and his ad hoc team of intelligence and paramilitary professionals have barely a week to prepare their risk-infused, make-or-break plan. to save the Pacific Northwest from nuclear terror. They will use an unlikely human CIA asset named Gamma as bait to smoke out the North Korean nuclear bomb plotters, integrate Gamma into their midst as the final piece of the puzzle as a trusted bomb technician, while bringing the competing Islamist terrorists to ground to be dealt with separately. All this without making the Canadian authorities aware that Operation Hard Candy is taking place clandestinely under their nose. If Lyon and his team can pull this off it will eclipse even the Iranian Nuclear Denial operation of months ago, led by Lyon's SEAL team and 'Blackie' Olyphant's Army Ranger platoon, in its audacity and magnitude of threat denial for the national security of the United States. Now Lyon and Olyphant are private contractors, but the new stakes are an order of magnitude higher and the risk-reward ratio even greater.