Kit Marshall is working for freshman congresswoman Maeve Dixon, a young Gulf War veteran representing North Carolina. A government shutdown has just been announced, and Dan, Dixons chief of staff and Kits supervisor, is an inexperienced lightweight flying blind. But things are about to get much worse. Early one morning, Representative Dixon is caught standing over the corpse of the Speaker of the Houses top staffer -- a man she argued with in front of the press the day before.
