Chapters 1-7 Summary

A short Chapter 1 focuses on Arthur Lieberman, Federal Reserve Board Chairman, who has less than a year to live. Determined to go out in infamy, he will be completing one final act that will destroy certain individuals, and he is happy to do so. It will mean that he will fly to California today, from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. The plane, however, has been sabotaged, and, shortly after take-off, the right wing separates from the plane, and it crashes. There are no survivors.

Chapters 2-7 take the reader back through the month prior to he crash and into the lives of Jason and Sidney Archer, a young, successful couple with a small daughter, Amy. Jason works for Triton Global, a large technology firm that is about to become larger through the acquisition of CyberCom, a company which produces state-of-the-art...