Audio Book Description:
From a buff overlooking Gerogia`s untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his bestfriend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later,a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and leaves behind overwhelming evidencethat he was responsible for theassass- ination attempt. General Andy Banks, the Secretary ofHomeland Security, is nursing a guiltyconscience. Only days before the assassination attempt on the President, Banks had received a note with a dire warning: "Eagle One is in danger. CancelChattooga River. The inside ring has been compromised. This is not a joke." The message - on Secret Service stationary - was signed "An agent in thewrong place." Banks immediatelypassed the note on the Secret Service Director Patrick Donnelly, who proceeded to ignore it. Even after the assassin is found dead, Banks is determined to dig a little deeper. He turns to Speaker of the House John Fitzgerald Mahoney. TheSpeaker has a guy - an under-the-radar, go-to guy he uses for things like this- things he can`tafford to have connectedto his office. The guy is Joe Demarco,an honest lawyer with a sordid family history. After one meeting with Banks, Demarcorealizes he`s in way over hishead. But Mahoney finds the prospect of taking down Donnelly irresistible and sets Demarco ona trail that twists throughthe Secret Service, the FBI, andthe Department of Homeland Security, andsnakes all the way backto one of the more enduring mysteries of the twentiethcentury.
