When Supreme Court Justice Anderson Coulter is assassinated on a college campus, the nation fractures overnight. States form new coalitions, militias rise, and the line between protest and war begins to blur. John Steele, a combat veteran turned academic, is reluctantly drawn into the fray when he narrowly survives an ambush meant to rip the nation apart. In a last-ditch attempt to keep the country from spiraling into bloody civil war, Steele drafts a covert plan commissioned by the Governor of Texas - The Steele Report. As the report is set in motion and the nation teeters on the brink of war, Steele uncovers a deeper conspiracy - one that no one understands. While the evidence points to extremists on both sides of the aisle, he begins to suspect someone else is pulling the strings - someone with the means and motives to shape events in ways that seem impossible. When his plans are sabotaged, Steele is trapped between accelerating violence and the cost in blood of choices that can no longer be undone. What began as an attempt to save the nation collides with the forces shaped by those choices - and increasingly driven beyond human control.
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