Deepkill

After a botched terrorist plot, a coast guard agent uncovers a terrifying threat against America.

The plan is simple. The moment the Homeland Security adviser reaches the middle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a team of suicide bombers will rush his car, killing him and destroying the bridge. But as the plot's mastermind watches from afar, he sees only two small explosions. The bridge has survived; the plan has failed. He will have to find another way to bring terror to the United States - and he's about to get a fearsome opportunity.

Investigating the attack, coast guard agent Erik Westman meets a dying air force pilot who claims to have dumped a nuclear bomb off the coast of Delaware in 1967. It's still there under 30 feet of water, waiting to be used by anyone mad enough to detonate it. If Westman can't reach the weapon before the terrorists, the nation's capitol will burn.

©2005 Michael Kilian; This 2015 edition published by MysteriousP ress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

This needs to be a series

I know the author has passed away but I would love to see another writer take on the characters similar to what Kyle Mills did with the Mitch Rapp series from Vince Flynn and make this into a series. I think there is an untapped mine of material for someone to use with the Coast Guard, DHS, terrorists, etc.

wish there were more

I picked up a copy of this book over 20 years ago(wow) and it became one of my favorite books. was glad it got the audio treatment.
would have been a great start to a very unique USCG-GWOT era series.
Definitely worth a listen.