Worker protests, unbridled capitalist greed and the specter of international terrorism shadow the sunlit summer of 1903 in an America still reeling from a President's murder by an avowed anarchist. Widowed Rough Rider and Shakespearean actor Dade Wyatt longs to cast off the shadows of his own past and retreat to a quiet life as a security operative for pulp and paper tycoon Warren Dodge. But when Dodge's plans to host Wyatt's old commander President Teddy Roosevelt on his idyllic Vermont estate are imperiled by a guest's mysterious death, Wyatt must descend into a maelstrom of desperate poverty, anarchy and class war to safeguard the President and bring a killer to justice. With help from an enigmatic Creole, a bluff Scots police inspector from the N.Y.P.D. and a Vermont farm girl on the cusp of womanhood, Wyatt embarks on an odyssey that takes him from the immigrant slum-dwellers of the lower East Side to the aristocrats of Fifth Avenue, from the granite sheds and anarchist...