PATRIOTS' WAKE: When Democracy's Guardians Become Its Greatest Threat In this explosive political thriller, retired CIA analyst Michael Collier thought his decades of witnessing democracy's collapse in foreign nations had prepared him for anything. He was wrong. When his daughter Emily, a dedicated USAID doctor, is killed under suspicious circumstances in Somalia, Collier discovers her death wasn't random violence but collateral damage in a sophisticated assault on American democracy itself. Tech billionaire Archer Vance, whose surveillance empire spans every corner of American life, has been systematically infiltrating the nation's critical infrastructure while hiding a devastating secret: he isn't who he claims to be. As constitutional safeguards crumble under fabricated emergencies and critics mysteriously disappear, Collier assembles the Aegis Covenant —a clandestine network of patriots including an FBI counterintelligence expert, a constitutional scholar, a military admiral, and an investigative journalist. Operating in the shadows, they race to expose a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of government, where the President himself has become a medicated puppet in a silent coup. From the corridors of power in Washington to the remote wilderness of Maine, where a congresswoman's murder triggers an armed standoff between federal forces and state militia, Patriots' Wake delivers heart-stopping suspense while exploring democracy's most terrifying vulnerability: how quickly it can die from within. But this isn't just a story of institutional collapse—it's about the ordinary citizens who refuse to let freedom fall without a fight. When digital manipulation meets old-fashioned courage, when constitutional principles clash with technological tyranny, the fate of American democracy hangs in the balance. Patriots' Wake is a chillingly plausible thriller that asks the ultimate question: In the digital age, can democracy survive those who would save it by destroying it? The Constitution is only as strong as those willing to defend it. Available now—because the price of liberty truly is eternal vigilance.