San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani is still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion he helped avert in Guardian of Lies, and has become more interested in larger, international dangers he sees on the horizon. A former radical activist from the days of Vietnam and SDS, a man involved in bombings and localized terror as a youth, thinks the time has never been more ripe for change in the U.S. And he believes he has the perfect scheme for bringing that change about: the complete annihilation of a single branch of government. Madriani becomes swept up in a race to save one third of the nation’s governing body, the Supreme Court, and puts his own life on the line in the process in this thrilling and provocative new novel.