Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death?... Or was he murdered? Inver Brass - a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decided to do away with him - quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his previous books look like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are in a deadly collision course, spiraling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. Hurtling towards a showdown that will rip Washington's Intelligence community apart - leaving only one damning document to survive...