Maurice Leblond

任期半ばで死亡した副大統領の後任として、大統領から直々に使命を受けた女性上院議員。彼女はアメリカ初の女性副大統領として政界で不当な差別を受ける……。

A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.

The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.