Based in part on the author's three-decade career in city management, Without Purpose of Evasion provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run a city, fascinating incidents in California history, and interesting background on contemporary policy issues that appear on the front pages of today's newspapers.

Richard Clarke has been one of America's foremost experts on counterterrorism measures for more than two decades. He has served under four presidents from both parties, beginning in Ronald Reagan's State Department becoming America's first Counter-terrorism Czar under Bill Clinton and remaining for the first two years of George W. Bush's administration. He has seen every piece of intelligence on Al-Qaeda from the beginning; he was in the Situation Room on September 11th and he knows exactly what has taken place under the United State's new Department of Homeland Security. Through gripping, thriller-like scenes, he tells the full story for the first time and explains what the Bush Administration are doing.

Muslim-American spy Sami Lakhani discovers a White Nationalist group is behind a terror threat everyone thinks is emanating from his childhood mosque. So why is the White House treating it as a case of Muslim terrorism? Sami's loyalty to his family and country are tested in this political thriller full of real spy tradecraft.