The Private Spy, A Tale Of Foreign Intrigue, Political Skullduggery, And Murder. Steele Wolfe, A Prominent Foreign Correspondent For The Washington Tribune, Decides That Ten Years Of Dredging Through The Cesspool Of Middle Eastern Intrigue And Jihad Is Enough. He Returns To Washington, D.C. And Learns That His Fiancé Had Decided That Ten Years Of Waiting Was More Than Enough And Had Married Without Bothering To Advise Steele Of That Development. Unfortunately For Wolfe And The Newlyweds, Someone Murders Winthrop Montgomery Iii, The Vice President’S National Security Advisor And New Husband Of Wolfe’S Former Love, The Night After Wolfe’S Return. Of Course, Wolfe Is A Suspect, A Status He Shares With Montgomery’S Abandoned Spouse. From That Low Point, Wolfe’S Life Goes Downhill. A Distracted Wolfe Sets Aside His Planned Tome On The Middle East, Hooks Up With An Old Contact, A Former Cia Station Chief Now Running His Own Private Intelligence Service, And Returns To His Former Middle Eastern Beat. Again, A Party Unknown Inexplicably Murders Montgomery’S Widow, Wolfe’S Former Fiancé, And The Fbi’S Focus On Wolfe Intensifies Despite His Apparently Solid Alibis. At This Point, Fate Intervenes. Wolfe Stumbles Onto An Illegal White House Operation. Wolfe’S Subsequent Expose Creates Havoc In The White House; The Vice President’S Chief Of Staff Is Summarily Fired And Inexplicably Murdered. The Fbi, Now Under Intense Media And Political Pressures Increases Its Focus On Wolfe, An Effort That Leads To A Dramatic Shootout At Wolfe’S Mountain Cabin.