At first. Until the Vice President starts spending a lot of time in underground bunkers around the country, and the hit man after Morgan turns out to be a North Korean. Then the bad guys spin doctor Morgan and Graham into terrorists, so that they can be shot on sight. Very cannily, Johansen touches on timely situations, and touches off our paranoia about personal rights, power, and freedom. She also serves the story well by never letting her dynamic duo, or the plot, settle into one place too long. The dialogue flows, the action hums, and the pages turn quickly in this thriller which takes us into the mind of a Southern congressman plotting to take over the country. But Graham, not the congressman, gets her man, and she does it with the help of the president. Of course, he insists on participating in the plan to capture the perpetrators. No doubles for him!
Now, that's a timely portrayal, in a book that won't take you much longer to read than it took us to win the last war we started.