Crash

In thirty-six hours a small group of international business tycoons will obliterate the world economy. They have found allies in China, as the West has imposed economic sanctions that threaten to plunge their country into bankruptcy, and China is determined to fight fire with fire. Their hackers will shut down the East Coast electrical grid in union with America's economic meltdown, and mercenary hit teams will assassinate the heads of the three biggest Wall Street banks, along with the U.S. Treasury secretary.

Only one person spots a glitch in the U.S. Stock Exchange computers: SEC computer expert Cassy Levin. Her warnings sound on deaf ears, however, and she only has time to inform her friend Ben Whalen before she is kidnapped by the mercenaries.

A former Navy Seal turned FBI employee, Whalen has a day and a half to unravel the plot, save the economy, and, most important to him, save his friend. Because once the crash starts to go down, nothing can be done to stop it. The second Great Depression will begin.