19th Element

the long version

"Al Qaeda plans to attack Minnesota's Prairie River Nuclear Power Plant as a means to return the down-trodden terrorist organization to international prominence. In addition to their own devoted forces, the terrorists enlist some homegrown anarchists, and a three Mile Island survivor with a pathological vendetta against the nuclear establishment, to assist in the assault. James 'Beck' Becker is a former elite U.S. government intelligence operative who has retired to his childhood hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota--just six miles down the Mississippi from the Prairie River nuclear facility. Possessing wisdom born of experience, Beck suspects the terrorists' intentions ..."--Cover.