A wealthy American oligarch is about to change the face of American government, and he plans to do it one expired senator at a time. For good measure, he decides to fix a couple of other simmering world problems that have been mild irritations. Only a ‘dead’ man can stop him. His name is Robert Chase. The gulf between right and left is wider than any time since the 1930’s. Economies are teetering and the citizens of many western democracies seem willing to trade personal freedoms for stability. The story opens at a little sporting club in Marseille, where some off-duty firemen are reflecting on a beating they administered to an immigrant family the night before. These aren’t bad men; they are just following bad leaders. Sweeney McAllister is a wealthy American defense contractor and he has a program to change the world. To call him merely right-leaning is to do a disservice to honest conservatives everywhere. McAllister is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to remake the American political landscape into something more suitable. He is frustrated by the slow pace of change in traditional politics. Now he’s ready to work outside the lines in order to tip the balance of power in his direction. His methods are crude, but effective. He’s not simply buying the vote. He is murdering his way to a majority in Congress. Robert Chase is a legend at CIA headquarters at Langley. But to almost everyone he is also a dead man; only three senior officials know he survived a deadly attack in Paris. Add to that one woman; Samantha knows it too. She was with him. Sam has changed his life, and probably saved it a year earlier. She has her own secrets, just like Chase, but she’s fiercely protective of him and this goes to the heart of their relationship. They’re recovering from a punishing mission in Frankfurt just months earlier. Neither wants to reengage in the high-stakes game quite yet, but Chase is pulled in by events he can’t control.