Election Year

The 2020 American presidential race is underway, and the stakes could hardly be higher. Maverick Johnson Malone works as a staffer for a well-liked senator. Her name came from her parents' unusual choice: she was christened after the pilot from Top Gun and the basketball star Magic Johnson, both pop culture figures at the height of their fame when she was born in 1986. At first, Maverick is delighted to serve Suni Wainwright, a thirty-five-year-old politician with a decade of experience and a charismatic presence. Suni appears poised to become the country's youngest and first female president, and like many Americans, Maverick hopes she will bring fresh thinking to the White House.

That hope begins to crack when Maverick comes across a blurry video of Suni speaking Russian to a small group. Suddenly she realizes that nothing about her boss is as it seems. The senator everyone expects to make history is, in fact, a Russian agent. Working to expose the scheme and understand what drives Suni, Maverick is pushed to think hard about what it means to be an American. She knows what Suni has done but lacks the evidence to prove it, so she must gamble everything, her own safety included, to defend the future of American democracy.