Betrayal, intrigue, and dirty politics in this thriller centered on the highest stakes of politics, national security, and ecological fragility. Allen Hansen is a sitting senator running for reelection and the leading opponent of the Sentinel Act, a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data. A corrupt president has ordered an operation to uncover Hansen's past as a college activist and possible eco-terrorist. Deirdre Owens, the campaign manager for Senator Hansen, is desperate to protect him from the press and the plots of the President. Lauren Bastini, the radical one-time leader of the Oakland Four, now 73, disfigured from an attempted firebombing of a biotech company, is still committed to the violent destruction of the U.S. Government and of corporate America. The author draws on a background in national security and politics to weave an exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance. Riveting and relevant. Flawed or seriously damaged characters - all are one or the other - capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.A timely, high-stakes political page-turner...Our verdict-buy it. and t and t and t and t and tKirkus Review of Books