Professor Kilmer, a renowned historian of war and diplomacy, is collected from his home and whisked off to Washington, D.C. Thrust into the highest levels of government as an adviser to the President, the young historian must come to terms with the seemingly impossible, figure out how to navigate a world where not everything is as it seems, and use all the skills and knowledge he has acquired in his life to help save humanity from a conflict of truly historic proportions. A novel that re-examines the eternal themes of war & peace, strategy & serendipity, love & friendship, courage & fear, and the bounds of possibility and imagination. Although a work of fiction, woven throughout the fabric of the novel are genuinely cerebral elements... lessons and insights on strategy, history, negotiation, war & peace, and the human condition.