Main Characters

Clyde is the main character who, as a 12-year-old boy, witnessed the death of his Choctaw Indian father. This injustice drives him to become sheriff of Tecumseh County, Mississippi. While chasing the racist goon he suspects of killing his father, he stumbles into a plot to shatter American democracy.

President Curtis Cole is a billionaire who bought the American presidency. His plan involved an unspeakable act of treachery that may now drive him from office.

Wallace is a brutal thug who Clyde suspects murdered his father. Now Slade is working for a warped ideologue with horrifying plans for America’s future.

Phelix is an old man on fire with his hideous beliefs, and he wants to create a dictatorship based on the worst excesses of the Right and the Left.

Preston is Phelix’s son, a pathetically weak man who unknowingly executes key parts of his father’s plot to destroy the US Government.

Vivian is Senator Blackstock’s vile, child-abusing wife and Phelix’s most devoted follower. She is charged with warping her husband’s mind to do whatever Phelix wants.

Charlotte is the only child of Preston and Vivien. Abused mercilessly as a teenager by her own family, she was forced to play a key role in her father’s ascent. Now, she lives only to destroy his political career.

Caroline and Clyde were once lovers in a repressive society that disapproves of a white woman dating a Choctaw man. As Phelix’s plot unfolds, they join forces to stop him, even if it means death for both of them.

Thomas is an eight-year-old boy whose limitless courage reveals Phelix’s plot to install a dictatorship.