Orwellian Widowed on 9/11, U.C. Berkeley-educated Jenny Peters gives up her seven-year mourning and joins the CIA to fight America's enemies. But when a chaste democracy is raped and she is entrusted with the task of prying secrets from an old friend allegedly-turned-enemy, she discovers patriotism has another face. Targeted by a monster born of righteous indignation, she must protect rather than silence the man she has been ordered to kill.