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It is April 2004. The administration of Gerald B. Whitethorne is finishing a tumultuous first term. The United States is at war. Gerald's daughter, Jesse Whitethorne, is visiting Tokyo when unexpected fulminant hepatic failure puts her life in jeopardy. Caught between his love as a father and his duty as the President, Gerald makes a choice that will alter the course of his presidency and, perhaps, of his country, irrevocably. It will reveal an underbelly of American politics danker than the world may have ever imagined, an international intrigue a planet perhaps is too timid to hope for, and the fateful encounter, with lives in the balance, of a girl and her new liver.