Suppose you were a best-selling author and someone gave you an idea for a plot, and everything you wrote started to happen. Suppose your story concerned a group of men powerful enough to change the course of history. Suppose they had a way of blackmailing half the influential people in America. If you knew all this - could they let you live?
It is Peter Chancellor who is writing the book and who is drawn inexorably into the battle for control of the blackmail material - the secret files of J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI and, some think, the most dangerous man in the country: Hoover was almost certainly assassinated for those files. The winding trail of Chancellor's investigation turns into a vendetta against the corrupters and the killers and a desperate race to find the truth without getting himself killed.
