Countdown to Armageddon / A Stranger in Paradise

In this amazing double-sized volume are some of Edward M. Lerner's best work:

In Countdown to Armageddon, terrorists have obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it-and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to the terrorists, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back in time to a turning point in European history.

Harry Bowen, an American physicist, and Terrence Ambling, a British agent turned historian, are determined to stop Abdul Faisel - but time is running out...

A Stranger in Paradise collects five of the bestselling author's science fiction stories, spanning microengineering to Big Brother to planetary ecologies in "The Night of the RFIDs," "Two kinds of People," "Better the Devil You Know," "Small Business," and "A Stranger in Paradise."