The President is Missing

A novel

English language

Published May 2, 2018 by Little, Brown and Company.

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The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view.

The plot centers around a computer virus termed "the Dark Ages" created by a Turkish group called the Sons of Jihad, who contrary to their name, are not Muslim jihadists but are “secular extreme nationalists”. The main character, Jonathon Lincoln Duncan, is the president of the United States and widower to character Rachel Carson, named as a homage to the famous 20th century biologist and author of Silent Spring. President Duncan's background is that of an Army Ranger who was tortured in an Iraqi prison yet heroically refused to break protocol. President Duncan's presidency …

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