Wildfire by Nelson DeMille

Shayne loved it. Me, not so much. Man, am I picky or what?

Very witty and funny, but could've been about 300 pages shorter. Too much cat-and-mouse, to the point of being more implausible than the story itself.

Story line is based on an assumed standing government order for nuclear attack response, and a powerful, rich man taking on himself to launch a nuclear attack inside the United States in order to trigger the United States' automatic response - made without Presidential approval - which spells out large scale bombing of the Muslim World and a reset of world order. Story is told from the perspective of the NYPD detective who cracks the mystery and averts disaster...

The overall possibility is thought provoking and the hilarous banter between the detective and his FBI wife hits close to home...