The homegrown terrorist, Azee, is pitted against his Secret Service nemesis, Tom Gleason, who uses bizarre tactics to bring Azee to justice for his Detroit bombings of the First Family. Azee is so blinded by his fruitless, obsessive love of his former high school girlfriend, the First Lady of the United States, that he risks his enormous wealth in an effort to destroy Gleason, who knows about Azee's nuclear arms trading with Iraq. Gleason and Azee have the proverbial nine lives aa this pre-nine-eleven and now prescient Boston Marathon international saga races to its surprising conclusion.