"Five elementary schools have been bombed on the East coast this morning in what is being dubbed a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States…"
Andrew Gibbons came to Washington D.C. to start over, to forget everything that came before it. But when a chance phone call provides him evidence of a politically-motivated murder, things take a turn for the surreal. On the run from men he doesn’t know, and for reasons he doesn’t fully understand, Andrew Gibbons’ only hope for survival is uncovering the truth…and ultimately facing what he hoped to forget.
Five years ago, Trent Dahlen was passed over as the next deputy director of the National Security Agency. Now, he heads a clandestine division of the CIA known unofficially as The Fifth Column. When his team sets its sights on the man who took his job, took his family and his future from him too, they uncover the unthinkable—a bold deception that threatens the very fabric of America.
With five elementary schools on the East coast bombed in an apparent terrorist attack on the United States, just days before the reauthorization of the controversial Patriot Act, Andrew Gibbons’ and Trent Dahlen’s lives are set on a collision course. And the truth, they will find, is the most shocking part of all.