Sinopsis

The former President of the United States — a hawkish former leader of the free world who's now gone bohemian – is busy doing his best to settle into a crunchy California retirement routine where the highest-stakes decisions he faces are the flavor of his morning smoothies and choice of trailheads for his afternoon hikes.

All that changes when a mysterious note arrives, the sender somehow circumventing the former president's round-the-clock Secret Service detail in delivering the clandestine call for help. The source of the letter is a figure in the U.S. government whose daughter has been taken as leverage against something the letter-writer has learned, which a set of secretive power brokers want kept quiet.

Craving something bigger to solve than his weekend crossword puzzle, the former president is compelled to follow the trail of bread crumbs — but soon finds himself in way over his head, landing square in the crosshairs of a former enemy he...