Margaret Truman

On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...

The Washington art gallery owner, Annabel Smith, investigates the blackmarket in rare books. This follows several murders, connected to an attempt to obtain a journal of the voyage of Columbus to the New World.

When Brixton takes on a twenty-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite-- and right into the lap of a secret government organizations that been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.

The State Department is thrown into disarray when three commuter planes crash, and Soviet missile fragments are found among the wreckage of two.