In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with a breath-taking array of crimes. Oddsmakers give Sean Drummond zero chance of saving his client from a death sentence. However, his professional obligations run deeper: Morrison's wife, a CIA executive, has begged Sean to save her husband, and Drummond doesn't want to disappoint his old flame.

Despite ever-more-damning intelligence leaks that paint Morrison as worse than Benedict Arnold, Drummond bulls ahead and comes to suspect that this simple case of treason is actually a chess game being played at the highest levels by the best and brightest--one in which Morrison is merely a pawn.