Balance of Power - Softcover

Huston, James W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061703206 ISBN 13: 9780061703201

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

Synopsis

Off the coast of Indonesia, an American cargo ship has been seized by terrorists, its captain kidnapped and its crew mercilessly slaughtered. In Washington, a peace-loving President's refusal to punish the transgressors has enraged the sitting Congress, led by a wrathful Speaker of the House.

An ambitious young congressional assistant, Jim Dillon has discovered a time bomb hidden away in America's Constitution a provision that could be used to wrest power from the Chief Executive, a long-forgotten law that could incite a devastating constitutional crisis . . . and plunge the country into chaos.

Now, as a battle group steams toward a fateful confrontation in the Java Sea commissioned by Congress and opposed by the President Dillon finds himself in the center of a firestorm that rages from the highest court in the land to the killing fields half a world away. Suddenly there is much more at stake than the life of a single surviving hostage and a superpower's military credibility as a great nation prepares for war . . . against itself."

About this title

About the Author:

A graduate of TOPGUN, James W. Huston flew F-14s off the USS Nimitz with the Jolly Rogers. He served as a naval flight officer and worked in Naval Intelligence before becoming a lawyer and the acclaimed author of The Shadows of Power, Balance of Power, The Price of Power, Flash Point, and Fallout. He lives in San Diego, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061703206
• ISBN 13: 9780061703201
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 544