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It's October 1972, ten years since the Cuban missile crisis erupted into a full-blown nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Russian has been decimated and the United States is a shell of her former self, a second-rate power dependent on handouts from her European allies. Supplies are rationed. Martial law rules. The memory of President John F. Kennedy - believed killed during the war - is reviled. Members of his administration, "the best and the brightest," are either dead or in prison.
In Boston, Carl Landry, a young reporter with The Boston Globe, arrives at the scene of a murder. A friendless man, a veteran of the '62 war, has been shot to death in his bed. Carl learns that the man was the keeper of extraordinary information - the truth about the war's origin and the secrets of President Kennedy's final hours. Could the war have been avoided? Who started it? And who would kill today to keep these documents buried forever?
