"Weary of Cold War politics, CIA operative Gabriel Haines can't wait to leave the Company life for a job on his friend's isolated Texas ranch...[W]hen President John F. Kennedy is assassinated just yards from where Haines stands, the former agent finds himself in tighter crosshairs than ever before...Motherless preteen Ivy Jean Pritchard is a worrier, but she's trying hard not to be suspicious when her father sends her to spend the weekend on a ranch with family she's never met...Now, marksmen have tracked Haines to the ranch...When the weekend turns deadly, Haines and Ivy Jean are the first to learn that secrets, especially those devised and perpetuated 'for the good of us all,' can break down a family--or a nation--in the blink of an eye"--Page [4] of cover.