From Washington insider and New York Times bestselling author Martin L. Gross comes a remarkable novel of searing political insight and unrelenting tension. Charlie Palmer, the newly elected Congressman from Ohio, is a hero of the disenchanted. His incorruptibility and refusal to go along with the status quo have made him the most popular politician of the age. But now Palmer stands on the threshold of the White House. And his enemies, the Washington Establishment, are joining forces across party lines to destroy him using every weapon at their disposal: money, blackmail, lies, the media...even murder, if necessary.