ASSASSINATION

Jay Killian is a senior member of the Secret Service. On the day before the Inauguration of the new president, Killian has just returned from a six-week sick leave. He is given a new assignment: to protect the First Lady, Lara Royce Craig.

Being highly qualified and a seasoned veteran of the service, Killian is dismayed that he is not on the Presidential detail. To make matters worse, Lara proves to be an extremely difficult charge. She is arrogant, condescending, demanding, and she detests the presence of Killian.

With the First Lady doing what she wants and ignoring all of Killian's suggestions, it becomes apparent that someone wants Lara dead, especially when a biker tries to shoot her.

A wild cross-country adventure ensues as Killian attempts to protect Lara and flush out the assassin and his contractor—and the assassination attempts may have originated from the White House.

It turns out that, because of a war injury, the President is impotent and his wife is about to file for divorce at the end of his first term. Believing that the divorce will eliminate the chances of another term, the president's co-conspirators staged the assassination attempts, to keep the President's impotence a secret and gain him the people's support in his grief.

Killian is able to unravel the conspiracy.

Killian uncovers a political conspiracy behind the assassination attempts, revealing they were orchestrated by the president's supporters to protect his reputation. The plot is unraveled and the danger to Lara is neutralized.

Assassination concludes with the exposure of a conspiracy meant to protect the president's image by eliminating his wife, whose potential divorce threatened his political future. The ending lands as a classic Bronson takedown of corruption, blending action with a cynical view of power and loyalty at the highest levels.