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A political murder unleashes decades-old secrets and discoveries that stretch across a major midwestern city to a desolate Indian reservation

Following the assassination of Minneapolis Mayor Jack Sorenson, Agent Kellen Roberts is assigned to the investigation. Linda Green, a community activist from the city's north side, with her strong name recognition, scores of volunteers, and established political organization, is poised to win the special election to become mayor. Through the discovery of a pair of secrets about Green, her accession is what Ford Madison planned when he organized the mayor's murder.

As the investigation into Mayor Sorenson's assassination grows, clues lead Agent Roberts to Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of an 1890 Indian Massacre and a 1973 occupation by the American Indian Movement, where, as a newly commissioned FBI agent, Roberts was assigned to enforce the government's position. Roberts' return to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, his first visit since 1973, forces him to confront the consequences of his actions during the seventy-one day standoff between the U.S. Government and AIM. His flashbacks remind him of the tension and deadly exchanges that occurred during encounters with members and sympathizers of AIM, but also of the rugged and spiritual beauty of the environment in western South Dakota. Pursuing the killer on the reservation reveals emotions and discoveries that conflict with the agent's ability to complete the investigation and bring the murderer to justice.