The President's son is dead. Until a message arrives on his phone.
Dad, I'm alive. Do as they say.
A helicopter has crashed into the Potomac River. The President's son is missing, presumed dead. The nation is mourning.
But President Andrew Burr knows the truth. His son has been kidnapped, and the people holding him want something far more dangerous than money.
They want control of the White House.
Unable to trust his own security team, the President turns to Otis Thorne, a former CIA operative who abandoned the intelligence world for a quieter life as a Georgetown professor.
Otis soon discovers that the kidnapping is only the opening move in a conspiracy decades in the making. A secret organization with ties to Russia has infiltrated the highest levels of American power, and someone inside the President's inner circle is hiding an impossible secret.
As the kidnappers tighten their grip, the President faces an unbearable choice: protect his son or betray his country.
And Otis must uncover the truth before the conspiracy claims its ultimate prize.
Because the greatest threat to the American presidency may already be inside the family.
Fathers and Sons is the first book in the Otis Thorne Thriller Series, a political conspiracy thriller featuring espionage, betrayal, and a deadly struggle for power.