On July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams both died, unaware of each other’s fate. Both men were part of an
ongoing conspiracy, and entrusted a cipher and corresponding wooden discs,
inset with a secret code, to trusted informants to hide them from the Society
of the Cincinnatians, an organization they both feared would overthrow and
bring the U.S. government to its knees.
The Allegiance, secretly written into
the U.S. constitution, was to be used to ensure our current form of government
was enacted, no matter which political party was in power, and to control the
presidency so they upheld the constitution as Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Nixon all
discovered. The current guardians of this precious document, The Philosophers,
protected the codes and cipher, and had them passed down as their predecessors
died. Until now. They found themselves under full frontal attack by an
assassin, code named The Surgeon, as the Cincinnatians became determined to
capture the codes.
Mayer introduces us to Colonel Paul
DuCharme, recently recalled from Afghanistan and Evie Tolliver—next in line to
chair The Philosophers—a former member of the CIA, as they are forced to team
up to ensure the Allegiance is kept out of the wrong hands.
Wave Old Glory and join in the ensuing
game of cat and mouse as the forces of evil in the form of home-based
terrorists stalk those that control the codes and cipher and attempt to
determine the overthrow of all we hold dear. This is a great drama, steeped in
history, which will keep you turning the pages late into the night. Mayer
strikes one for freedom.
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