Colonel Julius Montclair saved Washington from annihilation. He foiled the plot of a secretive group called the Cabal, but he didn't finish them. He's about to find out what they've been doing. Colonel Julius Montclair, hero of the Battle of the Potomac and the Savior of Washington. The youngest airship commander in the Union fleet, a man burdened by his own fame. Only he has the experience and skill to go behind enemy lines on one more deadly mission. Only this time, he'll be forced to confront the ghosts of his past. Ghosts that still have the power to kill. Scarlet, the fiery-haired assassin, must confront the rot within the ranks of the Department of Strategic Intelligence. She and her minder have a plan to go into the belly of the beast and deliver justice to a traitor, one of their own, but they're not the only ones steeped in decades of intrigue. Can they defeat a man who knows every move they will make? Abe, fresh out of Indoctrination and earning the moniker The Bookkeeper, is saddled with a minder who is a drunk at best, a traitor at worst. He'll have to figure out a way to work with the man and keep them both alive long enough to pull off a dangerous mission. Vince Flynn's political thrillers meet the creative technology of Jules Verne.