Line of Succession: A Thriller

August is the quietest month in Washington. Yet as Congress leaves for its annual summer recess, the nation is rocked by a series of high-level assassinations so devastating that the magnitude is hidden from public view.

With the Federal Government in disarray, and the Pentagon retaliating against Islamic radicals abroad, counter-terrorism agent Blake Carver begins piecing together an ominous set of clues that predate the assassinations: a murdered soldier, encrypted cell phone transmissions, a dozen stolen Stinger missiles and satellite photos of a revolutionary desalination plant in Iran.

If only Carver’s job was as simple as hunting down a group of foreign extremists. As he soon learns, the attacks on America were only the beginning of a much wider global power struggle. Only this war isn’t about religion, foreign policy or oil. It’s up to Carver to stop a group of powerful Washington insiders battling over control of the planet’s most previous resource: water.