The book deals with a report that the President groped a female reporter in the Oval Office. This is one of many charges recently leveled against the President. To combat these charges, the President and his Chief of Staff decide to form a covert group in the White House to smear his enemies. Two misfits are recruited to carry out this campaign; one is an FBI agent and the other a Staff writer in the USDA. Both are about to be fired from the government. They are assigned to a nonexistent office in the Old Executive Office Building. Ample resources are made available to hire additional personnel: including a retired FBI agent, a former US senator close to indictment and a secretary with limited clerical abilities. The book is apolitical and does not involve the two major parties. Five targets are identified by the White House: a whistle blower who is critical of the President's energy polices; a popular radio commentator who is receiving sensitive inside information from the White House; an Under Secretary of State who represents a challenge to the President; the potential Presidential candidate and a groped female reporter. The action shifts from a biker-bar in California, a country music station in Oklahoma, the State Department and the business /theater districts in New York City. With some misinformation, superb timing and a lot of luck, the group is amazingly adept at solving many of the President's problems.