Appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, Judd Ryker's mandate is to help the U.S. respond more quickly to foreign crises. But he hadn't reckoned with the interdepartmental turf battles he'd face. Then comes the coup in Mali. He could prove his theory of the Golden Hour: that in the hundred hours following a coup, there's still a chance to reverse the chain of events. But in the real world, those hours move very, very quickly indeed.
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