A New York Times Bestselling Author The 16th Amendment legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with its ratification? Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department, is now retired. But when his former boss asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files, Malone is vaulted into a twenty-four-hour chase that begins on the water in Venice and ends in the Croatian highlands.