THE POLITICS OF MURDER
Senator Andrew Carrington, majority leader of the U.S. Senate and a leading candidate for the presidency, is murdered in his residence library after returning from a fact-finding mission to Colombia. Amanda Carrington, the senator's wife, promptly retains the services of Shelby Cole, a criminologist and former Secret Service agent, to prove to the FBI and the local police that she did not have a hand in her husband's death.
In the course of the investigation, Cole meets Wayne Patrick, Senator Carrington's administrative aide; Theresa Campbell, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer who is friendly to Patrick; and Barton Amcourt, a CIA official who was working closely with Senator Carrington on a classified covert operation in Colombia.
When Mellisa Farrell, a hospital pathologist, discovers a micro chip containing both surveillance and transmitting capabilities implated behind one of Senator Carrington's ears, the murder inquiry deepens to one of international significance. As Cole proceeds with his probing it becomes alarmingly clear that motives for the murder of Senator Carrington abound.
Did Amanda Carrington arrange for her husband's demise in retaliation for his unbridled womanizing? Or did Wayne Patrick do the deed to prevent his dark dealings with the senator from coming to light? Or was it Barton Amcourt who feared the senator had uncovered something personally damaging to him? Or did Theresa Campbell come to know more about the explosion that killed her father, Colonel Travis Campbell, during his clandestine assignment to Colombia?
With his own life in jeopardy, Cole draws ever closer to Melissa Farrell en route to unraveling a mystery that has the audience guessing right to the end of this 3-act production which takes place entirely in Senator Carrington's library.