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BALANCE OF POWER: A NOVEL
By: James Huston
Harper
June 2009
On Sale: June 1, 2009
560 pages
ISBN: 0061703206
EAN: 9780061703201
Mass Market Paperback
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One nation indivisible...until now.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 determined 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 clause 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. And, 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.
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