Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead, None of us knew it was coming. So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chieff executive's oldest friends, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eitht years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really hapened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade--old presidential crossword puzzle, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that conceals secrets worth dying for.
" Double-crosses, mayhem, a thrillingly tense stand-off, and a cunning twist only a few will see coming...From the first sentence, Meltzer's thriller grabs hold and doesn't let go."
--Miami Herald--
" It gets no better than this." --BookReport.com--