Elected to the Senate on a promise to root out corruption, Burton "Boxcar Burt" Wheeler sets his sights on ousting Attorney General Harry Daugherty, puppet-master behind President Harding's unlikely rise to power. But when his trusted fixer, Jess Smith, is found dead of a gunshot wound in the apartment the two men share, Daugherty is suddenly thrust into the spotlight. As Nathan Masters recounts here, Daugherty finds his unlikely savior in the young J. Edgar Hoover, who sees opportunity amidst the chaos.