“They buried the truth for generations. Now it’s rising with a vengeance.”

On International Festival of the Earth Day, a massive climate change protest erupts at the Lincoln Memorial. Amid the chants and banners, Cherokee shaman Wohali Lightfoot and his white stallion are assassinated in broad daylight.

FBI agents John Green and Phoenix Schultz are on duty. As chaos unfolds, Green is dispatched to Oklahoma to investigate Wohali’s roots, aided by a Professor of Native American culture.. Meanwhile, Schultz anchors the DC investigation, uncovering chilling evidence in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft—a fortified door breached from within. Could a federal insider be aiding a climate terrorist conspiracy?

In Oklahoma, Green learns Wohali’s family has vanished into the Smoky Mountains. The night he arrives, a terrorist attack on a remote retreat forces him into immediate action. As he interviews Wohali’s father, Isaac, Green confronts a haunting story of childhood survival from the global “Stolen Generations”—a history Isaac attributes to a corrupt ideological force he calls the “Corleone Christ.”

As the investigation widens, alliances form between federal agents and state police to expose a conspiracy that could shake the nation. 

In this pulse-pounding thriller, truth, trauma, and justice collide on the fault lines of culture, faith, and power.

For readers of Indigenous thrillers, climate crime fiction, Christian suspense, and political conspiracy novels. 

Authors Website: gjmann.co.uk for GJ Mann's biography, reviews and to understand the inspiration for 'Why this book?' was written.