Chapter 22-25 Summary

After an enormously and unsurprisingly successful press conference, Vice President Baxter continues to strategize with his team while Dallas King slips out to a trendy bar to meet Shiela Dunn, Washington Post reporter. King is attracted to her, and she manipulates his attraction to gain valuable inside information. For his part, King uses her manipulation to feed her the information that he wants out: namely, that Tutwiler is to blame for the earlier failed negotiation. He also tells her that the CIA is responsible for the President's safe removal to his bunker, since they informed Secret Service agents of the threat only moments before the attack started.

Inside the bunker, one of those agents knows the drills are gaining ground, and Warch shares his suspicions that the Vice President may not have the President's best interests in mind. Warch and the...