Commentary
New Jersey Senator Kerry Kilcannon's brother was assassinated 12 years ago, and now he may suffer the same fate at the hands of an assassin who has traveled across the country to San Francisco, where Kilcannon is campaigning. With the election at stake, Kerry is focused fully on the polls and the media, though he must watch his back at all times if he is to survive.

Publisher's Notes
4 cassettes / 5 hoursRead by Patricia Kalember(also available on CD and as an Unabridged Audio)In his first AudioBook since the national bestseller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson gives us an extraordinary novel of presidential politics.Senator Kerry Kilcannons insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick Mason has come down to the last seven days. Whoever wins the California presidential primary is likely to win the Democratic nomination. And for all the votes his passions and magnetism have gained him, Kerrys problems are formidable.Kerry is haunted by the tragedy of his older brother, a presidential candidate who was assassinated in California twelve years earlier. Kerry has stumbled in his advocacy of abortion rights, and a right-to-life fanatic has pushed this explosive issue to the forefront by murdering three people at a women's clinic. In addition, a journalist is striving to verify the story that while still married, Kerry had a live affair with a reporter. And now, ever more threatening, Kerry is being stalked by the abortion-clinic murdered himself.With rare authenticity, Richard North Patterson depicts the world of high-stakes presidential politics that will hold the listener enthralled from the first to the last sentence.

With rare authenticity, Patterson takes listeners to the heart of high stakes presidential politics and--displaying the same mastery of psychological detail and suspense that has marked his previous bestsellers--tells a story of extraordinary originality in which public image and private life are forced into an incendiary and far-reaching collision. Abridged.