A brazen daylight kidnapping of a Supreme Court Justice at term's end to keep him from being the critical deciding vote in a monumental environmental issue ushers in a spine-tingling and bizarre set of events, leading all the way to the White House. The Court is compromised, a Court official is mysteriously murdered, a DNA mix-up results in the wrong man being charged in a triple murder, as the scene shifts between four states, in action-packed adventure which includes drones, illegal surveillance and eavesdropping, high tech weaponry, spying, a ransom, and a cast iron frying pan which becomes a weapon. A young reporter and his professor/fiancee lead readers through a dizzying series of events while the kidnap victim lies in a coma, with suspects everywhere. It's all topped off with an incredible surprise ending.