Called a romance novel with machine guns; Five Seconds of Dead Air brings a new action hero into the literary world. Retired Navy SEAL & former Secret Service agent Maxwell Max Mason was living a quiet life in the suburbs of Washington DC when an old friend & mentor asks him for a favor that would change his life forever...save his granddaughter & the daughter of the President of the United States held hostage by a terrorist who wants Max dead for his own personal reasons. To complicate matters, the woman he had feelings for when he left the government is now responsible for the President's daughter's protection and being held as well. Along with his two best friends, also retired SEAL's; one a tech wizard, the other a television star; they have to breach a highly secured government broadcasting facility where a charity fundraiser hosted by the children of the world's government leaders is being broadcast world-wide. Max and his team have to rescue the young hostages, save the girl that got away, fight off technology & the bad guys with a few surprises along the way knowing that Five Seconds of Dead Air could mean the difference between getting out alive...and all hell breaking loose.