"WATCHCON I"

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On a Sunday afternoon at a Washington ballpark, a senior intelligence analyst watches a baseball game while the Director of National Intelligence is assassinated twenty rows away. The shooter is North Korean. The motive, as DIA analyst Jeremy Burke will spend the next several weeks proving, is not what anyone in the Intelligence Community believes it to be. On the other side of the world, a young North Korean analyst named Pak has just returned from Hong Kong to a Pyongyang that is preparing for war. He has been recruited into the White Tigers — an elite intelligence unit with the only unrestricted internet connection in the country, conceived by Kim Jong-un himself, whose formative education in Switzerland made him the most internet-savvy head of state on the planet. What Pak discovers on that connection will shatter everything he was raised to believe about his country, his family, and the regime he has served. As North Korea deploys nuclear-tipped missiles on their rails and the United States moves B-1B Lancers to Guam, Pak makes a decision that will either prevent a nuclear war or accelerate it: he opens a hotmail account and sends an email to a DIA analyst he found on a Brookings Institution conference page. Two hundred and eleven emails later, the most significant intelligence operation of the century will end in a way that no one — not Jeremy, not Pak, not the President of the United States — will ever be permitted to talk about. WATCHCON I is an intelligence thriller written by someone who was there.