When rookie federal agent Priya Banerjee is sent on her first undercover assignment as a TSA worker to vet security at Newark International Airport, she's forced to team up with an ex-special forces soldier turned antiquities dealer to stop terrorists from acquiring and detonating a dirty nuclear bomb on Manhattan and confront the possibility that both her fellow agents and her younger brother might be working with them.

I would read that one, Pliny!

I've always assumed TSA agents let more stuff through than they ever catch. Why pay them off when incompetence is free? I picture a line of mujahideen carrying Stinger missiles labeled "skis" through the line while the TSA agents are performing an enhanced pat-down on a four-year-old and trying to figure out whether a cancer patient's colostomy bag is a biological weapon. If you want some good background on how to break the system, this Atlantic article is a good place to start. The Things He Carried. My favorite line from the piece. "What's allowed? Saline solution, or bottles labeled saline solution?" "Bottles labeled saline solution. They won't check what's in it, trust me."

Love the Atlantic piece. Schneiers a hoot, but the smartest commentator on general security matters out there. I bought his original crypto textbook the day it came out. But back in the day, the biggest threat was from the baggage handlers, and if you were flying through somewhere like Logan or Newark, you were likely to have one of them sift through your stuff. I've had luggage on more than one occasion end up on the baggage carousel with broken padlocks.

In this action-comedy, bestfriends and quintessential odd couple, BRAD - a police academy dropout and LONNIE - high school burnout, think they have it made in the cushy jobs of TSA screeners. But suddenly they find themselves the last line of defense when they accidentally help a terrorist cell smuggle a bomb onto an airplane and the entire airport terminal gets locked down and held hostage.