The Disappearance

In the Chicago Silversmith Hotel and Suites parking facility the driver of the blue BMW checked his watch. Then he smiled, raised his hands to the roof and screamed "Allahu akbar!" An instant later the equivalent of one thousand tons of TNT detonated with a deafening roar. Simultaneously devices went off at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, close to the Stock Exchange in New York City, the Old State House in Boston, the National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia, the Holocaust Memorial in Miami, the Pacific Stock Exchange in Los Angeles, Haight Ashbury in San Francisco and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Static over-presssure from the blasts killed 50% of the people within 150 meters of ground zero. Even at 350 meters half the people were killed by the blast energy. Their tissues vaporized before their bodies could fall to the ground. David Jamison, editor with the U.S. Weekly News magazine, is on a mission to discover the real reason for millions of people worldwide vanishing without a trace. His challenge is aided by Uri Sakharov, a mysterious gentleman with Epiphany Associates Unlimited.