Under the presidency of former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, the struggle for America's soul has begun—a trial of conscience and idealism versus idolatry and political dictatorship. Democracy is fading, and one woman in a solitary small agency created by Congress, the Office of Whistleblower Counsel, is determined to save it. The White House officials who stand in the way, however, are adamant and ruthless. Their plan is to clear the field for their corporate clients by making the government safe from real public scrutiny for all time to come, and with tens of billions at stake, the servants of corporate America will use any means necessary to protect the mobsters who pull strings and triggers in every agency from the "Star Wars" Pentagon down to the trash-collecting GSA. Arriving to complicate the mix is Edison Eden, an activist from the heartland. Like thousands of other young and dangerously naive idealists, he is anxious to devote his life to public service. However, no sooner does he arrive at his new job on K Street, than things begin to go wrong. After overcoming various human obstacles, he is shocked out of his wits by senior investigator Laney Dracos—a powerful insider known around Washington as an "agenda-sly Democrat" who wants to destroy President Reagan. In the weeks which follow, Edison learns to forsake office politics and doggedly pursue his mission to provide aid and succor to terrorized government employees. Unknown to him though, he is being scrutinized and his fate judged, not only by White House minions, but by a secret resistance organization known as "The American Watch" led by none other than Laney Dracos. Like her partisan companions in the Watch, she rejects cooperation with the Reagan regime and plans for its demise with the help of the fourth estate. However, when Edison falls in love with her and becomes an overly enthusiastic sidekick in her war on corporate Washington, she is inevitably forced to choose between her honor or her life.