Is New York Burning by Dominique Lapierre

Three years after september the 11th, terrorist have hidden an atomic bomb in the heart of New york. If the president does not forve his Israeli allies to abandon all the land they have occupied in the aftermath of the 1967 war, New York will be wiped out. Will he give to blackmail? Two years of research, an impressive number of documents studied, scores of people interviewed , make this reading a diabolical thriller, and a work of extraordinary force set in the heart of today's world.