Dictators, from the Castro brothers in Cuba to Putin in Russia, and even Somali pirates, see America as an easy target when it elects Margaret Massey its first woman president. She shows international bullies just how strong an American woman can be with help from Lt. Colonel Aaron Kaplan, a much-decorated officer with an instinct for winning battles and uncanny luck in everthing except his romantic life. But collapsing European banks plunge America into a second Great Recession and a strategist in the White House decides that only kidnapping leading bankers and forcing them to open up credit for loans can save the economy. Was President Massey complicit in his plan? This time Aaron Kaplan's battle skills can't save her. Whether she is thrown out of office and goes down in history as a failure depends on what the iron-willed Speaker of the House decides.