August 2004: A lone "Sleeper" terrorist detonates a suicide bomb in the closing moments of the Democratic National Convention killing the President & Vice President in Jihad for Allah. He is immediately celebrated as a martyr in his homeland.Other sleepers sent here years ago see the assassination and ongoing coverage on TV and come out of the shadows to carry out their own attacks. A frenzy begins.A newly formed team of anti-terrorism experts work outside normal practices to find the planners and financiers of worldwide terrorism and stop future attacks.The new President is not politically correct, not squeamish and doesn't really want the job anyway. He faces an election in weeks but must fight political battles over the Patriot Act and his own alcoholism while dealing with one terrorist attack after another. It's going to be a rough few weeks.