The book revolves around the primary assistant to the President as crisis after crisis evolves. Massive Latin American immigration has flooded Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California which are demanding separation from the United States. India and China have fought a massive war in 2025 resulting in the deaths of hundreds of millions. Israel and the Middle East were decimated in a nuclear war. The Mars colony of the United States implodes. Sexual mores have deteriorated within the United States.