Did J. Edgar die a natural death...or was he murdered? Inver Brass-- a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoovers unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him-- quietly efficiently with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his precious books like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course spiraling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. Hurtling toward a showdown that will rip Washingtons intelligence community apart-- leaving only one damning document to survive . . .