Ruth B. (rib) reviewed on 1/11/2007

Late afternoon, Virigina, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US sentaor named Lincoln Bowe, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know but she thinks she knows who's involved and why. And that she may be next.

House later, a phone rings in the pocket of Jacob Winter. An Army Intelligence veteran, Winter specializes in what he thinks of as forensic bureaucracy. Congress, the Pentagon, the FBI, CIA, Honeland Security -- when something goes wrong. Winter kicks over rocks until he finds out what really happened. The White House is his main client, and the chief of staff is on the phone now. If Bowe isn't located soon, he is told, all hell will break loose.

What Winter doesn't realize is -- all hell will break loose anyway. And he will be right in the middle of it. Large forces are at work, men determined to do whatever it takes to achieve unprecendented ends. Before the next few days are out, Winter will discover he has to use every one of his resources not only to prevail...but just to survive. And so will the nation.

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