"Inside the Capitol Building, the 100 members of the United States Senate were entertaining final debate on this last business day before the annual August recess of Congress. The air in the Senate Chamber was heavy, but with tension rather than humidity, because this last Friday in July was also the 190th day of the Presidency of Samuel Landon Long — and most members of the Senate were silently praying they could get out of town before the dawn of his next."

Author F. Mark Granato's The Long Shadow is a riveting, fast paced journey through the first months of a new, and decidedly unusual President and his turbulent administration. But something's not right at the White House, for it quickly becomes apparent that there is a rogue occupying the Oval Office who is of a mind to rewrite the Constitution — even if it takes bloodshed to do it. The whole world is watching: Will the greatest nation in history survive... or become history?