Like most of his predecessors,

President Preston Armstrong had

a serious domestic agenda for his

second term in offi ce. A challenge

to his plan is presented which threatens

the historic interpretation of the U.S.

Constitution and the future confi guration

of the United States.

A series of events including assassinations

of high profi le Americans, both in and out

of the government, further interfere with

his domestic agenda. Debate within the

White House is divided between whether

or not these murders are random acts of

violence or harbingers of worse things to

come from organized terrorists. President

Armstrong asks his new Vice President

Mike Henning to work with his personal

covert operative, Tim Shannon, to learn

from his sources in the Middle East

whether a major terrorist attack against the

United States is planned.

Despite Osama bin Laden having been

killed by the CIA in 2011, al-Qaeda

continued to grow and spread their terrorist

attacks throughout the world. Now that

al-Qaeda had a martyr, recruiting became

even easier.

Tim Shannon and his team of his twin

brother Jim, plus John Murphy, and a

couple of new players undertake their

new assignment with their usual expertise

and foreign contacts. But the clock is

running down to identify, fi nd, and arrest

the men behind the greatest terrorist threat

in history against the United States, and

destroy the plan and its operatives before

they can carry it out.