When President Harrison Lockwood begins his second term amid glittering celebrations, no one imagines the night will end in fire. A shadowy transnational terror network known only as Third Wave has spent years placing its pieces on the board-inside the Pentagon, the Kremlin, New York's five families, even the First Lady's bed. On New Year's Eve, the first domino falls: an assassination attempt in the White House gala, explosions across the capital, and a president fighting for his life while his own brother, CIA Director Gideon Lockwood, races to stop the next wave.Family secrets detonate faster than bombs. Gideon's decade-long affair with First Lady Elaine Lockwood is captured on hidden cameras-blackmail that threatens to tear the administration apart. Assets turn traitor, safe houses burn, and Air Force Two is hijacked over the Atlantic with Vice President Stephanie Rose aboard. Every alliance is a lie, every loyalty is conditional, and the body count climbs from Baghdad safe houses to the corridors of Congress.As the attacks escalate from gala bombings to a nuclear warhead streaking toward an American city, the Lockwood dynasty fractures under the strain. Gideon must decide whether blood is thicker than country when the woman who shares his bed and his secrets becomes the deadliest threat of all. Harrison, battling private demons and a crumbling body, is forced to confront the cost of power. And Stephanie Rose-thrust into the presidency by a car bomb that kills her predecessor-faces the final, impossible choice: launch or let millions die.From the Oval Office to Moscow's back channels, from New York piers to the skies over the Atlantic, Third Wave is a relentless, high-stakes political thriller that exposes how fragile democracy truly is when the people sworn to protect it are the ones pulling the strings.Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva, and House of Cards-Third Wave delivers non-stop action, shocking betrayals, and a terrifyingly plausible vision of power at the breaking point.