The SHIVA Compression

The ultimate doomsday weapon: The top secret SHIVA Compression virus can automatically launch all U.S. nuclear missiles. Once released onto the nation€s communications networks, SHIVA cannot be turned off.

Air Force Lieutenant Perry Helion stumbles across a twisted cult that seeks to use SHIVA to produce an orgy of destruction. Perry and his team have only a few days to somehow stop the SHIVA virus from burrowing into the launch computers at every Minuteman missile base and sending the nuclear warheads arcing skyward to an all-consuming firestorm.

Perry and his colleague and former lover Jan Caplan find one Air Force officer who will listen: Ben Loyola -- a tough, old fireplug colonel who runs the Air Force€s Office of Special Materials. Perry and Jan join Loyola€s crack team, who have repeatedly done what was necessary to recapture stolen Soviet nuclear weapons. Now Loyola and his small group must join Perry to corral the most dangerous enemy yet: the relentless SHIVA Compression, a viral agent designed by the Cold War€s greatest scientists to ensure that even if America is left leaderless by a sudden €œdecapitation€ attack, U.S. missiles will still be fired in retaliation.

A crazed atomic cult revives SHIVA and releases to €œcleanse€ the earth of non-believers. They will do anything to carry out their insane plan. Perry, Caplan and Loyola must face down doomsday itself to save the world.