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In the days after Washington was decapitated by a small nuclear device, Senate investigator and survivor Jackson Guild --Guild as in wild-- finds himself entangled in a kidnapping, shot in the face, and thrashed by a BlackHawk helicopter, the unwitting victim of an armed standoff that doesn't end well. He's found America's worst nightmare has just begun, but its roots run deep, and he's an angry, cagey man.
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