After the Power

Richard Vale is out of the White House, but the consequences of his presidency are only beginning.

A new administration has taken power with a simple promise: justice will follow the evidence, wherever it leads.

For Attorney General Rebecca Sloan, that evidence begins with money.

An investigation into suspicious financial transactions leads to Port Sterling, where luxury towers bearing the Vale name attracted hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign buyers. What first appears to be another investigation of the former president soon reveals something much larger.

Developers. Offshore money. Russian wealth. Political influence. A mysterious financier. A frightened witness hiding in Morocco. And Martin Keane, the loyal fixer who spent nearly three decades making Richard Vale's problems disappear.

As Sloan follows the money, people who once protected Vale begin protecting themselves. His business empire starts to collapse. His fortune disappears. His health deteriorates. And the man who once commanded the most powerful office in the world discovers that loyalty has an expiration date.

But the greatest revelation is still ahead.

Richard Vale may not have been the man who built the machine.

He may have been only one of its customers.