The day before midnight - Hunter, Stephen, 1946- (Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1990)
Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button.
Keywords: Special forces (Military science) -- United States -- Fiction; Terrorists -- United States -- Fiction; Terrorists -- Soviet Union -- Fiction