The Nine-Hour President: A Political Thriller
Can the Speaker of the House Save the World in Just Nine Hours While America Sleeps?
On the eve of the inauguration, the outgoing President is shot and killed by the Secret Service, but not before he issues a nuclear strike order on a U.S. adversary. With no Vice President to take the helm, Speaker of the House Sylvester Billings is awoken to the crisis and informed he is now the President. In a race to stop the order before a MAD nuclear war erupts, Billings must keep the peace, root out the traitors in the government, and find out why the president was killed in just nine hours before the next President takes the oath of office.