Dragonfire!

In "Cody’s War," the latest installment of the M.I.A. Hunter series, Jack Cody embarks on a perilous mission to locate a defecting physicist, Dr. Kwan, who has developed a dangerous mega-weapon called Dragonfire. Complications arise when a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane vanishes over the South China Sea amid suspicious submarine activity, and a dive team sent to investigate also goes missing. As a coup unfolds in Beijing, led by rogue military officers bent on nuclear destruction, Cody must navigate a treacherous landscape filled with deceit to avert a catastrophic global threat.