America's newest attack submarine, the USS AMERICA, has been stolen by a rogue CIA team - and Jake Grafton is drafted in to investigate. When the sub fires cruise missiles - containing new, classified, electromagnetic warheads - over Washington and then New York, trillion-watt pulses fry every circuit, switch, and microchip - along with a major portion of the internet...But who is really behind the theft of USS AMERICA, and more crucially, who has most to gain from a crippled web?