Defense attorney Paul Madriani tracks an extremist hellbent on destroying the entire Supreme Court in one deadly stroke in this latest in the "New York Times" bestselling series.

San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani is still reeling from the trama of a near nuclear explosion he helped to avert in "Guardian of Lies," and has become more interested in larger, internaional dangers he sees on the horizon.

A former radical activist from the days of Vietnam and SDA, a man involved in bombings and localized terror as a youth, thinks the time has never been more ripe for change in the U.S. And he believes he has the perfect scheme for bringing that change about: the complete annihilation of a single branch of government.

Madriani becomes swept up in a race to save one third of the nation's governing body, the Supreme Court, and puts his own life on the line in the process in this thrilling and provocative new novel.