The year is 2003. Suddenly and inexplicably, the President if the United States has lapsed into a coma. His Vice President, an unpredictable man with a very definite belief in the supernatural, has dispatched his press secretary, William Cochrane, on a mission that will challenge everything Cochrane has ever believed. It is a journey that will take the veteran journalist from hidden Secret Service files to a New England psychic who holds the key to a horrifying 30-year-old crime.