Patriots Circle

As the Washington D.C. area prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July, a mob of malcontents assembles along the George Washington Parkway running adjacent the Potomac River from the south end of Old Town Alexandria to the circle at Mount Vernon.

As the mob assembles, attorney Mo Katz is investigating the mysterious death of John "Jack" Smith (alias The Jack of Hearts) at River Pointe, a historic mansion located along the parkway. Smith, a former CIA spook, had just been released from the peni...