SYNOPSIS: Search for Sanity opens with Natalia, a woman in whom the Russian state has vested an absolute license to kill. She seeks the advice from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of Moscow.
"How is it possible that my son could command me to kill one of his children?" she asks in disbelief.
Thus, begins one woman's frantic quest to avert a miscarriage of justice while preserving her far flung family as well as her personal integrity.
In the United States, in the year 2000, a new president is elected by a hair's breadth. He appoints a Yale Professor of Russian Studies to be his Director of National Security. This new director ignores threats to her homeland and spares no effort to engage in her own pet project: berating Russia for its barbaric violations of the Geneva Conventions of War in its civil war in Muslim dominated Chechnya. This harassment of Russia comes to a quick end on September 11, 2001, when Osama bin Laden provides this NSC Director real work relating to the genuine national security of the United States. Soon bridges are mended and Russia applauds her sister superpower for entering the new millennium by finally taking up the mantle of authoritarianism.
Over the skies of Iraq, a helicopter is shot down. Three die, but one Flight Lt. Robert McCain survives to verify for a disbelieving world a method of interrogation revived from the ancient wisdom of the Qur'an now being put into practice by modern day Muslims. One of the dead is the daughter of George W. Beaver, the Washington bureau chief for the New York Times.
In the name of sanity, George goes in search of the truth. But, so help me God, there are two sitting superpower presidents who don't like the truth. Both agree, the electorate of the United States has no business knowing the truth. Election year 2004 is accelerating to climax - only two months remaining. George exploits all his contacts ruthlessly - time is running out.
The Summer of 2004 is a summer of love for Alfredo Ursini,
heir to a vast beer and wine fortune and a born and bred fascist in the Italian mold. He
meets the woman of his dreams, a princess who is born of aristocracy, to the very Tsar of
Russia when once he lived. Alfredo's ruthless father-in-law-to-be, Sergio Romanov, a
deposed Russian Grand Duke and claimant to the Russian throne, seeks proof as to whether
Alfredo is serious about marrying into this prestigious family. Being an honorable prince
amongst the Italian upper-class, Alfredo does not hesitate to heed the call of romance. 
