DiPaolo and the Colonel

"You are the only one who saw a president assassinated. That makes you the expert."

Having failed to protect McKinley, Martino DiPaolo, hesitates to accept the assignment to safeguard his successor.

Elsewhere, John Flammang Schrank believes that McKinley's ghost urged him to kill Roosevelt. That sworn commitment of a madman persuades DiPaolo to once again risk his own life to lead a president's security detail.

Meanwhile, DiPaolo is haunted by consequences of the sinking of the Rio di Janeiro...