At the height of the G20 summit, a storm of chaos descends. Rutledge, the calculating and enigmatic head of Pax Security, hijacks the global stage with a meticulously executed hostage crisis. Armed with bleeding-edge deepfake tech and an untraceable web of cryptocurrency, he doesn’t just seek revenge—he aims to fracture the world’s balance of power.

President Danielle Sutton, once the beacon of unity through her Together Plan, finds herself cornered. With foreign leaders held at gunpoint and her own family leveraged as pawns, diplomacy turns personal. Every decision is a tightrope walk between geopolitical fallout and intimate loss. As the summit spirals into a digital and physical battleground, Danielle uncovers a deeper betrayal—one rooted not in foreign threats but in the very heart of her administration. Someone she trusted has been feeding Rutledge intel from the inside.

Now, the obstacle she faces next is not just...