In a mystery the likes of which Agatha Christie would struggle to match, Hod Hawksbill, a retired journalist who limps on a cane that contains a powerful digital antenna, records the President’s Oval Office conversations from outside the White House. Lurking as a leaker par excellence, Hawksbill reveals how President Conan Cain uses his office to make billions of dollars, how he betrays our country to our most menacing global enemy, and how his closest allies grow to despise him and try to assassinate him —while De­mo­cracy totters as an innocent bystander. Knowing that our nation’s life is at stake, Hawksbill’s cease­less sleuth­ing steers our principled but perishable democracy from being ruled by a greedy tyrant and his aquisitive cronies.