At first it looks like straighforward suicide, a successful man lying in his blood-soaked bed with a gunshot in his mouth. But this is no ordinary corpse, the man was the Honourable Thomas Jefferson Boyd, director of the FBI. Three thousand miles away former FBI agent John Chase is just beginning his retirement, summoned to investigate the apparent suicide he uncovers a web of lies and deceit which if ever revealed would have far-reaching repurcussions. After being attacked by far-right paramilitary radicals, John enlists the help of an elite team of ex-FBI agents and so begins an electrifyng cross-country odyssey of intrigue. In this new book the authors move beyond their penetrating nonfictoin work, taking readers on a furious psychological duel between America's top profiler and a ruthless, criminal mastermind.