President Steve Wade believes his affair with a beautiful Lebanese woman is a secret. When she is murdered in mysterious circumstances, FBI agent Kelly Smith is called in to investigate. What follows is a tangled web of vicious white supremacists, a hostile foreign power and a shadowy high placed Washington figure known only as Fox. Suddenly, impeachement looks like the least of President Wade's worries as civil war threatens, and he faces a Coup d'Etat from the mysterious Fox.