Book excerpt: Tom Waller knows danger. As a highly trained agent for Tailfeather, the Nation’s most secret security organization, he has faced numerous perils throughout his service. This time, however, a seemingly innocent favor for Esme Barrows, his fiancé, may be his most explosive mission. Anton Kaszor, one of the world’s most brilliant and richest men and both a client and former lover of Esme, needs this favor. A favor which exposes Tom to unanticipated consequences. Meanwhile, John W. Bingham, senior senator from the State of Delaware and popular chairmen of the United States Senate Arms Committee is about to announce his presidential candidacy for the Republican Party at a national event. Suddenly, the senator mysteriously disappears from the campaign hall and Anton, his closest friend and biggest collaborator, may be involved. Tom gets drawn into the vortex of Anton’s psychological maelstrom as the past envelops the present and threatens the lives of everyone important to him.