Chapters (53)
- BALANCE OF POWER
- Acknowledgments
- About The Creators
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
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- THIRTY-THREE
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- THIRTY-FIVE
- THIRTY-SIX
- THIRTY-SEVEN
- THIRTY-EIGHT
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- FIFTY
"You're going to the airport now?" Herbert asked. "Chief, I'm sure you're going to have to brief the President."
Hood looked at Rodgers. "Mike, are you okay to handle that?"
"Sure," Rodgers said. He patted his bandages. "I got myself rewrapped before I came here."
"Good," Hood said. He took his cell phone out of his jacket pocket and put it in a drawer. "I'm going to get out of here before I get summoned."
"When will you be back?" Herbert asked.
Hood looked at the monitor. He stood over the keyboard. "I'll see you at the service for Martha," he said.
He looked at Rodgers then. The general's eyes were sharp and unblinking. He understood.
"I can tell you this, though," Hood continued. "Darrell was right. Good can come from madness.Through all the crises we've had to deal with, I couldn't have been blessed with a greater team."
"I don't like the sound of that," Herbert said.
Hood smiled. Still smiling, he e-mailed his resignation to the White House. Then he turned from his desk, threw a respectful salute at Mike Rodgers, and walked out the door.