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Balance of Power

by James W. Huston

ISBN: 0380731592
ISBN-13: 9780380731596
Format: Paperback

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When Congress threatens to declare war without the president's approval, a naval battle ensues in the Pacific to rival the unprecedented divisions played out on the House floor. Navy Seals and U.S. Marine units move into place amid intense legal battling in Washington over whose orders must be followed.

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Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1999
Size: 4.5 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 447

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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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