Chapter 16Six months after Adam Sukova’s presidential success, Jeff Stone sat with his friend Barbara Tressel at a table in the BlackSalt Fish Market and Restaurant. Despite her glamorous profile, the NBC news anchor was not enamoured of the social high spots of the Capital. Yes, she was by any measure a beautiful woman, with her high cheekbones, her laughing brown eyes, and her tumbling blonde hair – and she dressed fit to kill. Yet given the chance, she would prefer to walk the streets in a duffel coat and headscarf, and she opted instead to eat out in the more intimate back dining room of her favourite Washington eating place.
A few blocks from the Potomac River that divides the District of Columbia from the State of Virginia, BlackSalt had long been top of the list for Washington’s co
