Executive Actions — Gary Grossman

One bullet puts the plan in motion…“The best political thriller I have read in a long, long time―right up there with the very best of David Baldacci.” -- Michael Palmer, New York Times-bestselling author of Oath of Office

An assassin's bullet changes the course of the presidential election -- not by killing Democratic candidate Teddy Lodge but by killing his wife. Riding a wave of popular sympathy, Lodge surges forward as the man to beat for incumbent President Morgan Taylor. 
 
Meanwhile, Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke is ordered by President Taylor to investigate the assassination, which unravels a deadly Soviet plot that has incubated for decades. But it's not just the Russians that Agent Roarke must contend with. Another nation has a sleeper agent -- poised to forever alter American policy in the Middle East…
 
“Grossman had done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations…holds reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion.” -- Publishers Weekly