A CIA director with presidential ambitions, but not the cash, hires Arabs to launch a campaign of terror to precipitate economic chaos in the U.S. This will enable him to buy property at a cheap price, later selling it at a profit. The main protagonist is the banker raising money for the purchases.

An IRS woman takes on the armament industry after her director is murdered. Jesse Hayes learns the director was investigating illegal campaign funds to a senatorial candidate. The funds came from a company which was building a naval fighter plane. By the author of The Vulture Fund.