At dawn on Alcatraz, a choice between lives and orders hangs heavy in the salt-laced air. In the mid-nineteen nineties, at a rain-slick depot, General Francis Hummel lifts clear globes of deadly gas with ritualistic care. This is not the act of a monster, but a patriot pushed to the brink. We are thrust into this crisis alongside Stanley Goodspeed, a brilliant but untested chemist, and John Mas...
