"Godwin Pope is bored out of his skull. Now Vice President, the one-time software billionaire and hyperconfident alpha male has been reduced to the most menial of tasks. Meanwhile President Jack Mahone’s administration sinks lower and lower in the polls with every gaffe and self-generated fiasco.

Into Pope’s orbit swings Maggie Newbold, the sexy fallen-star journalist with a bad habit of sleeping with her sources. Using Maggie as an unwitting pawn, Pope sets in motion a plot of incredible subtlety designed to push the Mahone administration over the edge."