When a decorated American general and the newly appointed director of counterterrorism is murdered, Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. Allegedly, he was killed by a jealous mistress in an elegant NYC boutique hotel, but his death came just a few days before the general was to testify before a congressional committee on a highly controversial "Chechnyan Affair."? There are rumours that the general was going to deviate from the accepted version of events, and that the government may have had something to do with his death - to detract from their own mistakes. A suspenseful read right until the very last page.