When the most powerful man in the world begins to fail - his judgment eroding while his authority remains absolute - the people closest to him choose concealment over duty. In response, a small group of insiders commits an extraordinary crime in the name of preserving the republic: they remove the president from view and hold him inside an AI-generated simulation of the White House, buying time for the constitutional process of removal to take its course. What is meant to last days stretches into weeks. As the deception deepens, a foreign intelligence analyst, a seasoned journalist, and a young White House press aide each begin to sense that something is profoundly wrong - and the conspirators learn that the threat they tried to contain has outlived the man at its center. Told through six sharply distinct points of view and framed by the voices of future historians looking back on "the Eleven Days," Leverage Point is a political thriller of unusual moral seriousness. It is scrupulously nonpartisan: no party is named, the president is never identified, and the novel withholds easy judgment, asking instead who has the right to save a system when its safeguards fail - and what they become in the attempt. Leverage Point is the first volume of the Deep State Novels trilogy and stands fully on its own. It will appeal to readers of Vince Flynn, Brad Meltzer, and Daniel Silva, and to readers drawn to the speculative reach of World War Z, Station Eleven, and The Handmaid's Tale.