The homegrrown terrorist, Azee, is pitted against his Secret Service nemesis, Tom Gleason, who uses bizarre tactics in an effort to bring Azee to justice for his Detroit bombings of the First Family. Azee is so blinded by his fruitless, obsessive love of the First Lady, his former college girl friend,that he risks his enormous wealth to get even with Gleason, who knows about Azee's nuclear arms trading with Iraq. Gleason and Azee have the proverbial nine lives as this pre-nine-eleven and prescient Boston Marathon international sequel races to its surprising conclusion.