Excerpt--'Red Sky at Morning'
The White House
Step One was easy.
Gathering the available information was the first part of his job. This morning there was plenty of that. The most reliable sources came in from various intelligence agencies, including the CIA. News from the television and cable networks was useful, as well as the internet, but the newspapers were not: the story had broken too late to make the morning editions.
Willis Avery sat in his plushly carpeted, mahogany-lined office down the h