About This Book
Not so many years into the future, the U.S. federal government has become far too big. America's ruling party has become autocratic, and federal taxation has become thinly disguised theft. The Constitution matters less with each passing month. In a year, it might not matter at all. Three mysterious persons, and a very lethal woman in her seventies, quietly plot to restore the freedom Americans once knew. The woman's mission will be the hardest, and even seems impossible. That's why she first must steal nuclear weapons. Meet Lena Wysocki. At age 76 she is pretty, cheerful, and tough as nails. Her doctors give her less than eight months to live. She sees her slow death as a personal research project, and is curious about how her life will end itself. Her death, she thinks, should be instructive — more so than the deaths of her victims were. Decades ago Lena had been a top U.S. government assassin, moving around freely in Central Europe far behind the Iron Curtain. She never failed. Lena eventually ran the little black operations group she had started out in. She got bored in retirement, so — about once a year — she orchestrated one-off, dangerous missions that she sent contractors to do. Lena still knows the black arts well. She lost her conscience long ago, back when she lost any hope of a normal life, but she retained her sense of humor. Her routine now mainly involves good poetry, expensive bourbon, gentle exercise, and too much worry. As civil liberties erode around her, she worries about America's future. Lena deeply loves the country she long had served. It now hurts her to see its freedom quietly slip away. Then, without warning, Lena gets an astonishing chance to reverse America's downward spiral.
