A provocative new thriller about the limits -- and the extremes -- of patriotism. Tom Fargo thought he had it beat.   The anxiety, the guilt, the uncertainty that had gripped him since 9/11, when his estranged father died in the attack on the Pentagon - they'd all vanished. A former antiwar protester, Tom has become the "new face of American patriotism" and has risen to the top job in the office of U.S. Senator and likely presidential nominee Penn Mallory.   Then a Saudi plane falls out of the sky, killing the administration's all-but-announced choice for Secretary of Defense. Tom is assigned to investigate. And everything changes.   In a search for answers that will take him from the halls of power in Congress to terrorist strongholds in Europe and South America to the wealthy Gulf Coast of Florida, Tom will struggle to unravel a mystery whose clues don't add up:   A blogger who is murdered in a Washington coffee shop.
