A SINGLE LIE COULD WIN THE WAR WITHOUT SHEDDING A DROP OF BLOOD. The chaotic 'eighties... political assassinations, drug wars, the computer revolution... Jared Sanders, the criminal oilman, is inches...

GREAT LEADERS CANNOT AFFORD TO BE GOOD MEN.1986: Old scores settled, U.S. President Temple must consolidate control over a volatile nation and a changing world. A nuclear explosion in far-off Russia,...

REAL POWER IS THAT WHICH IS EXERCISED BEHIND THE SCENES AND BEYOND SCRUTINY.The last decade of the millennium. Communism is gone, only to be replaced by the tyranny of a new breed of robber barons.An...

GREED MAKES MEN ADMIT TO CRIMES THEY DON'T HAVE THE BRAINS TO COMMIT.The 'nineties loom. The Cold War is ending, and an information revolution is on its way. Freedom remains under attack... in death threats...

COWARDICE WEARS MANY MASKS—OF LOYALTY, OF RATIONALITY, AND OFTEN OF CLEMENCY.The twenty-first century is around the corner. bin Laden's fatwa, the dot-com bubble, an impeachment drama in the U.S. Capitol.Temple,...