What if Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had brokered a deal in order to stop the potential of an Imperial Presidency? And now, that original document is the object of a bloody search between the Society of the Cincinnati and the Philosophers? A thriller steeped in fact and history.

1. How Did Thomas Jefferson and
Alexander Hamilton plan to stop an
Imperial President?
They secretly wrote:
The Jefferson Allegiance

2. The tree of liberty
must be refreshed
from time to time with
the blood of patriots
and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

3. Who protects the Constitution from those
who seek ultimate power through control
of the White House?

4. 4 July 1826.
Exactly 50 years after the Declaration of
Independence.
Thomas Jefferson is dying and passes his part of the
Jefferson Cipher to a young Edgar Allen Poe.
John Adams is also on his deathbed, and passes his
part of the Cipher to Sylvanus Thayer,
Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy.
Almost 200 years later, people are being killed trying
to assemble the parts of the Cipher and uncover the
secret they contain.

5. The Facts:
In May 1783 the Society of the Cincinnati was
founded.
Alexander Hamilton was one of its leading
members.
Thomas Jefferson was not allowed membership.
The Society still has its headquarters in
Washington D.C.

6. The Facts:
In 1802, Thomas Jefferson, well known for his
opposition to a standing army, founded the
United States Military Academy at West Point.
Why?

7. The Facts:
In 1743, the American Philosophical Society
(APS), the oldest learned society in North
America, was founded. Thomas Jefferson was a
member for 47 years and its president for 17
years. He also established the Military
Philosophical Society at West Point.
The APS still has its headquarters in
Philadelphia.

8. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were
opponents and had different views for the future of the
United States.
They did agree on one thing, though.
That the country must survive and never be taken over
by a despot.
They knew the Constitution had flaws that could lead
to an Imperial President.
They brokered the Jefferson Allegiance and hid it.
The secret to its location is in the Jefferson Cipher.
The parts to the Cipher were scattered and hidden.

9. For over 200 years, the Jefferson Allegiance has
been used to control the President, brought out
only when needed and in secrecy.
It is so powerful, every President confronted with
it has bowed to its dictate as wielded by the
American Philosophical Society.
Until today.

10. As our present day story begins, at the Zero
Milestone in the heart of Washington D.C., a
Philosopher loses his life under the sword of
the ‘Surgeon’ who leaves his head & heart as
trophies, echoing Jefferson’s famous head-
heart letter.

11. The Society of Cincinnati wants to find the
parts of the Jefferson Cipher and end this
centuries old stand-off.
The American Philosophical Society must
protect their most-coveted secret.

12. The next unknowing heirs to the APS,
Colonel Paul Ducharme, and Monticello
Curator, Evie Tolliver, are desperately
trying to find the clues to the parts of the
missing Cipher.

13. As the Surgeon slices through the remaining
members of the APS, Ducharme and Tolliver
find two of the four caches.

14. The intent is clear. The message is bloody.
The search is on.
Who will find all the keys to the Jefferson Cipher
first in order to get to the Allegiance and control
the White House?

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16. Bob Mayer is aNew York Times bestselling author, a graduate of West
Point and former Green Beret. He’s had over 80 books published,
including the #1 bestselling series Green Berets, Time Patrol, Area 51,
and Atlantis. He’s sold over 5 million books. He was born in the Bronx
and has traveled the world. He’s lived on an island off the east coast,
an island off the west coast, in the Rocky Mountains, the Smoky
Mountains and other places, including time in East Asia studying
martial arts.
They haven’t caught him yet.
www.bobmayer.com