Majority Whip 2

The Senate floor is closed. The service entrance is open.Senator William Clayton spent forty years commanding the most powerful rooms in Washington. He built a career on intimidation, leveraging his status to hide his own profound inadequacies. But on Circe's Isle, his political immunity has been revoked, and his mainland logic is useless against the Grid.Fleeing the humiliation of his shattered ego, Clayton attempts to escape the island's relentless conditioning. Instead, he runs directly into the Handler.Stripped of his gavel, his Italian linen, and his carefully constructed delusions, the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee is violently forced to confront the truth of his own biology. Pinned under the crushing, undeniable weight of a post-human authority, Clayton undergoes a final, brutal audit. He must trade legislation for absolute submission, discovering that his darkest, most suppressed desires are the exact weapons the system will use to erase him completely.He is no longer a titan of Washington. He is simply meat for the machine.