Mirlinda Dzafer is a conundrum. She has a doctorate in international economics and a position as an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Gleacher School of Business. When not teaching, she owns and operates a trendy sports bar, all while raising her adopted daughter. But Mirlinda is also an elite assassin. Raised from the age of four in a secret Spetsnaz GRU program that began under the Soviet government, she speaks seven languages like a native and is an expert with guns, knives, hand-to-hand combat, explosives, and poisons. After defecting to the U.S., she became a CIA operative, and eliminated the five remaining assassins from the Soviet program. Yet nothing prepares her for an email inviting her and seven other elite assassins to participate in a contest to assassinate two high value targets. The prize-one hundred million dollars. The targets-the vice president and president of the United States. With the help of Cailan Bane and Dan Gabriel, an ex-force recon Marine sniper team known as the Death Whisperers, and Manny Alito, the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago FBI office, Mirlinda must hunt down the other assassins to protect the vice president and president while Cailan and Dan follow a trail to uncover the identity of the contest sponsors. What they discover is an insidious plot that could undermine the entire American political system and send the country into chaos. Stopping it will require an impolitic solution.