The Blind President

Blinded by an industrial crime, Elias Thorne rebuilds his life around discipline, memory and an uncompromising belief in public duty. When he becomes president of the Federal Republic of Caelora, the old guardians of power expect his blindness to make him dependent. Instead, it exposes how much every government depends upon unseen hands. But Elias has barely entered office when the attacks begin. A rifle waits above a campaign rally. Poison enters the presidential residence through someone he loves. Intelligence reports are altered, military orders are forged, and a constitutional inquiry is engineered to portray accessibility as incapacity. Behind it all stands a powerful network determined to recover the country it believes belongs to men like them. As betrayal reaches his family and fear spreads through the institutions he has sworn to defend, Elias must determine whom he can trust—and whether courage without restraint can become another form of danger. To survive, he must do more than defeat a conspiracy. He must prove that leadership is not located in the eyes, that independence does not mean standing alone, and that the highest office in the nation can be widened without being weakened.