Washington - five days before the Presidential Inauguration. The President Elect is charming, charismatic, and has a beautiful wife. He won the election by the narrowest of margins, but now he promises a new dawn for the American people. His name is Jack Meade.

Jacksonville, Florida. The man in the hospital bed has been cast ashore, his body and face ravaged by sea water, his survival a miracle according to the doctors. No one knows his identity and no one has posted him missing. He is irrational, delusional. He says his name is Jack Meade. No one believes him.