James Grady, the author who redefined spy stories with his Six Days of the Condor, has fused the crime novel and the political saga into a phenomenal thriller that illuminates new forces pulsating in our politics, our media, and our private lives. An illegal police wiretap reveals an assassination plot targeted at Faron Sears, the wealthy, brilliant, and charismatic, head of a cyber-based global empire, a black ex-con who has traveled up America's success ladder from the Chicago ghetto to he rank of favored presidential contender and major political visionary. Veteran FBI Inspector Dalton Cole, FBI Special Agent Sallie Pickett, and battle-scarred D.C. homicide detective Nick Sherman are drafted to protect Sears. Their mandate—to be kept strictly undercover in order to protect their superiors in America's justice machine—is to find a cold-blooded killer before he finds them.