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Summary: Good read
Review: I enjoyed the book, as I have all of Nance's books. One big question kept me haunted me all through the book though. Wouldn't a former US President travel on a diplomatic passport? If so, the whole premise of the book collapses. Generally speaking this book stretched the limits of the real world more than is typical of Nance's books.
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Summary: Headwind
Review: I have read and enjoyed Nance's previous books, his knowledge of the aircraft industry has contributed greatly to his writing. However this book is trashy. The premise is so weak and the political plot line so boring, that I could not finish the book. I hope Nance regains his style before writing any more books.
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Summary: First book I could not put down!!!!
Review: I have to admit I have bought different kinds of books looking for a good story. About halfway into a novel, I get bored or uninterested and end up not finishing it. "Headwind" is the first novel that I read till the end. I even read this in less than a week. The pacing was fast from start to finish. Each chapter added more to the original plot.The story itself is about a former president being charged with criminal acts by another government. The former president is protected by a rogue airline captain that performs some dangerous manuevers on his 737, in order to prevent the unjustice capture of the former president. In the midst of it all, the former president hires a trustworthy lawyer that he knew in the past to go against a determined international lawyer, bent on capturing the former president, and try to find answers. The novel can be described as an exciting aviation adventure, as well as a great courtroom drama. There is only one thing bad about the novel and that is the unnecessary romance. That's why I gave this novel only four stars. It is not needed and slows down the action, but not by much. But after reading other John Nance books, I change my mind and give this 5 stars because it is one of the plausible of his books. John J. Nance has shown me that not all books are bad. I will end up reading some more of his novels, starting next with Pandora's Clock. I recommend this novel to anyone looking for great entertainment other than a movie, even though this book felt like I was watching a movie. Exciting book overall!!!
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Summary: Transparent Story
Review: I'm a big fan of John Nance books but I was disappointed with Headwind. A former U.S. President is set to be arrested on an international warrant while travelling in Europe. Fast paced and interesting story premise that is ruined by the transparency of the character's actions. The story constantly ignores the ability to use other obvious and simple ways for the President to get of the problem. Also, throughtout the book the characters are constantly amazed out how other characters can anticipate their only obvious option. Sorry, but I was disappointed.
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Summary: Not His Best
Review: I'm usually a big fan of this author and his work, but there was just something about this one that didn't do it for me. A lot of times I felt like Mr. Nance is writing novels simply to show off his aviation knowledge. Yes, he's an expert, but I'm not and it's very confusing to try to follow a story where so much of it is wrapped up in technical talk. Trying to follow the storyline up in the airplane was next to impossible.
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Summary: Its a page turner
Review: I've read all of John Nance's books but this is his best so far. I'm not a pilot so if he missed some of the technical stuff it escaped me but I know that I hated to put it down. Seldom does a book force me to take a deep breath to release the tension but this one certainly did. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a suspenseful read.
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Summary: A Breathtaking Thriller on an Airliner
Review: Imagine that you are a former president of the United States. You have always stood for high principles, but while you are traveling in Europe, the bloodthirsty dictator of Peru accuses you of violating the international treaty against torture. He demands your arrest and immediate extradition to Peru, where a show trial will result in your execution. By international agreement, all nations must arrest you. You are in the air between Athens and Rome. Thanks to Peru's clever, British attorney, police will be waiting for you at any place that you land. What do you do? That is the problem faced by former Republican president John Harris in this nonstop thriller. While the president's attorney fights desperately against huge odds, the pilot of the airliner on which Harris rides maneuvers equally desperately to try to keep Harris from being arrested, but he can't stay in the air forever. The action never stops in this whirlwind story.
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Summary: Very Good Book!
Review: It's super great for a light read!!! John really knows what he's talking about. I'm a plane fanatic, and I find no information about any of the planes in the Headwind incorrect. It's a GREAT book. 5 stars.
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Summary: Flight to Avoid Prosecution
Review: John Nance's theme is thrillers about or occurring on airplanes. In Headwind, his latest, the airplane action is less interesting that what happens on the ground, but the story is arresting anyway. Former US president John Harris is traveling on a commercial flight that makes a stopover at Athens (Greece). Just before departure, the captain is informed that he must delay to allow police who are on their way to arrive and arrest one of his passengers-the former president. The captain-a US national, Air Force reserve officer who is master of a German-flagged commercial flight-doesn't like the way that sounds and fakes an emergency so that he can take off and continue to Rome. What he doesn't know is that the Italian police are also waiting to serve an international warrant on the former president, and police are on standby in nearly every European nation! In the 1980's, in an effort to be able to punish human rights violations by dictators, most nations signed a treaty that made the infliction of torture by any official in a country a "borderless" crime. In other words, a warrant could be taken out by people in one country and served on a citizen of a second country while in a third country-and extraditions treaties would not apply. This is the treaty that was employed for a Spanish court to claim jurisdiction to try former Chilean ruler Pinochet and to have him arrested in England. That actual case dragged on for quite some time and was finally moot because of Pinochet's age and health. In the novel, it seems that the current dictator of Peru had a brother who was killed in a terrorist raid on a drug processing plan some years ago. The claim is that the raid, which included the torture of women and children who were there, was a covert CIA action sanctioned by then President Harris. The dictator's avowed purpose is to take Harris to Peru, give him a trial, and execute him. The treaty would allow him to do that. The principal characters are the airline captain and a "defrocked" judge who has just been readmitted to practice law. The former judge was a junior partner in the former president's law firm years ago, and is the one person Harris wants to help him now. This, of course, drives the US State Department crazy. The story line is good, the characters are interesting, and the novel is a good, solid read. Reader will enjoy some good barbs thrown at bureaucrats, learn something about international law, and learn a lot more than they probably want to about the fuel problems of flying a Boeing 737 from Ireland to the United States.
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Summary: Worthwhile read
Review: Like all the other Nance novels, it centers around commercial flight, but has a different type of plot than the previous ones. This one is a study in international law and politics as well. Have read all the Nance novels and have found all of them to be a worthwhile read.
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