Abstract:
Investment banker and part-time FBI consultant Tom Easton is en route to Europe when the Capitol Building is destroyed by an explosion during the State of the Union Address. America descends into national turmoil. In London, Easton stumbles onto and foils an attempted assassination of Secretary of State Sarah Lander, who is in England negotiating a new trade deal. Lander becomes the hunted de facto President by the Law of Presidential Succession. She and Easton escape and must return home through a twisted labyrinth of danger, deceit and mass murder culminating in the deadliest imaginable constitutional crisis in American history.