When FBI Agent David Stafford finds himself on the Bureau's out list for publicly blowing the whistle on a corrupt colleague, he receives a low-profile assignment to investigate an Atlanta military base, where someone is suspected of auctioning off equipment without authorization.Now a cylinder containing an extremely hazardous biochemical weapon is missing, and Stafford is on the trail of the thief traveling from the hills of Georgia to the halls of the Pentagon in a race to recover the weapon before it falls into enemy hands.With strong characters and a plot that is frighteningly real, Deutermann's Zero Option is his most commercial vel yet, reminiscent of Tom Clancy and Nelson DeMille.