"Appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, Judd Ryker's mandate is to help the U.S. respond more quickly to foreign crises. But he hadn't reckoned with the interdepartmental turf battles he'd face. Then comes the coup in Mali. He could prove his theory of the Golden Hour: that in the hundred hours following a coup, there's still a chance to reverse the chain of events. But in the real world, those hours move very, very quickly indeed."
"Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties."
"Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties."@en
"-- The Golden Hour: In international politics, the hundred hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that diplomacy, a secret back channel, military action -- ?? ?As Ryker races from Washington across Europe to the Sahara Desert, he finds that personalities, loyalties, everything he thought he knew, begin to shift and change beneath his feet?"@en

The golden hour