The Jefferson Allegiance. Which was a #2 National Bestseller in Barnes and Noble when it was published and on sale today through the 20th.

Some years ago my wife had an excellent idea. She was thinking about how our government runs on a lot of norms. But what if someone didn’t care about the norms? How do you reel in a president who breaks the law? It’s happened more than people think in our history. In fact, Jefferson’s completion of the Louisiana Purchase was outside of the law.

The Jefferson Allegiance started with a simple question: What if Thomas Jefferson, on the Fourth of July, 1826 — the same day he died, the same day John Adams died — had already set something in motion? Something designed to outlast them both?

That question haunted me until I had to write the book.

The Jefferson Allegiance is a political thriller spanning almost two centuries of American history, from Jefferson to Kennedy to Nixon. It’s built on a foundation of real dates, real presidents, real moments where the republic teetered on the edge. I don’t make up the darkness in American history — I just follow where it leads.

This book is for readers who love history but suspect the official version leaves things out. It’s for anyone who’s looked at the presidency and wondered: who’s really in charge? And it’s for thriller fans who want their pulse-pounding action grounded in something that feels uncomfortably real.

The allegiance was made to protect us. The question is — protect us from what?