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A debut military thriller that delivers the requisite guts and glory while making a meaningful statement about the ambiguous role of violence in America. Huston, a former Navy F-14 flyboy, bases this intelligent if somewhat wooden page-turner on the scruffy antagonism between Newt Gingrich and President Clinton. His fictional stand-ins lock political horns over the proper response to a terrorist attack on a new American merchant vessel in the South China Sea. After pirates kill the crew, booby-trap the ship, and take the captain as a hostage to an uncharted Indonesian island, gassy President Edward Manchester decides to claim the high moral ground by not responding with force. His situation, we learn through the eyes of his beautiful (and chaste!) aide Molly Vaughan, is that he’s tied by the Indonesians themselves, who refuse to let the US Navy fly over their country. Meanwhile, Molly’s on-again, off-again romantic interest, Jim Dillon, a legal assistant to House Speaker John Stanbridge, points out that the Constitution permits Congress to issue a letter of marque, that is, hire a vessel to make war on another nation for the US. When the terrorists—apparently a group of anti-Americ

Who reads Balance of Power : a Novel?

Author

Huston, James W

Publisher

HARPERCOLLINS Publishers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780380731596

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.78 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14