Gamers

"Gamers" takes the reader inside the secret Chinese Military Cyber-Division as they contemplate infiltrating a Top-Secret U.S. nuclear missile complex on Kadena AFB on Okinawa Island, Japan, where General Blair, Launch Officer Owens and Technician Buehler try to prevent a nuclear missile launch. Watch Chinese Colonel Fangqi uncover a plausible vulnerability for the last ICBM of its type. For political and logistical reasons, the nuclear missile was left undisturbed yet functional.

Get acquainted with the newest cast of characters, Agency handler Susan Betts, Agents Burt Barnow and Janet Carmickle, Senior Computer Specialist Joe Erbes, as well as the National Agency Director Allwardt, and the Chicago and Dallas Agency Directors Wes Fleming and Jon Moore. As things spiral out of control, China's theoretical exercise becomes something else setting the global superpowers on a collision course that could spark the next war.

Get reacquainted with South Korean Agency Team lead by Director Valdez, and her team X.O. Newland, Moon Dog, Kyle, Gibby, Carla Jo and Mr. Davies. However, in the end, secret agents Icarus and Cornelius Van Aelst (aka The Lone Wolf) may provide the information to avoid disaster and exact retribution.

"Gamers" is another historical fiction novel, while delivering the unexpected twists and turns that Padilla's fans have come to expect.