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Summary: Couldn't put it down!!!!!!
Review: OK. Let's get the biases right up front. I am a pilot, a lawyer and I have an interest in politics and current events. So naturally I am going to give five stars to a book that deals with all four, right? Not so fast, Pilgrim. Mr. Nance has earned his rating with this novel which details the efforts of the President of Peru to arrest and extradite a former United States President under the Treaty Against Torture (the same treaty that Chilean ex-President Pinochet recently dealt with). The story takes us from Greece to Sicily to London to Belfast and to Galway as well as from Laramie, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado on a ride in a Cessna Skyhawk that none of us would want to have been on. The international flying is an odyssey of the finest kind as the captain of the German commercial airline's 737, a US Air Force Reserve Officer, tries to keep his former Commander in Chief from being arrested much to the chagrin of his British First Officer who sees their jobs evaporating with each new escapade. Add to the excellent flying portion of the story, a chess game on the ground between two international lawyers with very different backgrounds and the story only gets better.The Peruvian government has hired a British Barrister who is tops in his field. The American ex-president hires a former partner, who while once a very able international lawyer, has had a bit of a time of it lately, having been disbarred as a Judge and suspended as a lawyer and is waiting out his suspension teaching classes at the University of Wyoming when the call comes. The Peruvian government seems to have irrefutable evidence of the crimes of the former president and therein lies more twists and turns in this most compelling novel. The characters are well drawn, the dialogue flows smoothly and the story moves seamlessly across the pages of the book until, alas, you are at the end. Looking for a page turner? Look no further.
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Summary: Headwind.....EXCELLENT
Review: Once again I finish one of Nance's books within a week. Headwind is one of the most thrilling, heart stopping books Nace has written. I cannot wait for his next book to come out, each new one is better than the last. Keep up the good work!
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Summary: very good reading
Review: The most enjoyable book I've read in months. While you want to beleve in the president, doubts are always there. Not until the last pages do these change. As an action book it is not the greatest, but the tension in the plot keeps you right there til the end.
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Summary: "And don't call me Shirley"
Review: There are two--count 'em--two questions beginning with the word "surely" in the first 100 pages, and I got this mental image of Leslie Nielsen's voice in reply to them. But seriously, this book is a big departure from the theme of Nance's past adventures, which consist mostly of flying and onboard danger, with a little bit of ground perspective of what's going on up there. What we have here is a former US President onboard an airliner while a corrupt South American president tries to have him busted for murder because one casualty of a CIA drug raid was el Presidente's drug lord brother. He then sends a high priced legal hired gun to serve the warrant. So the former US President retains his old law partner as his lawyer. As a result, a lot more of the action takes place on the ground and onboard other planes. For example, there's one tense sequence where the ex-President's lawyer engages an amateur pilot in a tiny Cessna to get him to his overseas flight that's right out of Ernest K. Gann--ice on the wings and screwed-up instruments and what have you. As one media reviewer correctly puts it, this story has as much John Grisham to it as it does of Captain Nance's earlier material. When Stephen Coonts decided to depart from his accustomed fare of Top Gun-type stuff because his fighter jock hero was getting too old for it, it didn't quite work. For Nance to broaden his material a bit, however, seems to be working.
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Summary: Automatic page grabber
Review: This book grabs you from the very first page. Just as they were getting ready to depart EuroAir Flight 42 is told by ground control to stand by. One of the stewardesses finds out through a friend at the terminal that the Greek authorities are preparing to serve an international arrest warrant on one of its passengers, former U. S. President John Harris. Capt. Craig Dayton does not like what is about to transpire so he creates an international incident by taking off from the runway without air traffic control clearance. Peruvian president, Alberto Miraflores has evidence that Harris ordered the death of Peruvian citizens while being president of the United States. Using the World Court system he manages to get a warrant that will force every country to extradite John Harris for the torture and deaths of Peruvian citizens. The president is unaware of giving the orders and retains the legal services of Jay Reinhart, an expert in international law. The flight crew races around the clock trying to find a safe place to land while Reinhart uses his legal expertise to figure out how to quash the World Court subpoena and find out the truth as to what happened in Peru. Inspired by the news coverage of the extradition hearings for former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet, Nance shows what can happen when a government goes too far in trying to punish foreign leaders. Every aspect of this book has been thoroughly researched in order to make this a realistic courtroom drama. Nance knows how to attract reader interest with his novels and this one is no exception. It is an edge of your seat thriller combined with a courtroom drama. What more could you ask for?
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Summary: Very Good Book!
Review: This book is a good fairly quick read, with several interwoven plots and themes. The characters are multidimensional.
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Summary: Good quick read
Review: This book is a good fairly quick read, with several interwoven plots and themes. The characters are multidimensional.
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Summary: Good try!
Review: This is my second Nance book (the first one being "Blackout") and I like it. I have the impression that Nance is trying to write a new niche thriller - "airborne legal thrillers"! Good effort, but certainly room for improvement. In fact with Nance's background I believe he should be able to produce a very good one next time. This is not very typical Nance's style but it is nonetheless a page-turner. For readers who have not read Nance's previous novel this one would be a starter. Keep up the good work, Nance!
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This was my first novel by Nance and it was outstanding!! I am an avid reader - but finishing a novel in 24 hour period is fast for me!! I have read some reviews in the past that stated "couldn't put it down" - this is, indeed, one of them. Pilots, attorneys and politicians all thrown together in an international setting on a fast pace! What else could you ask for!
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Summary: Plans and Politicians
Review: When a bogus warrant is issued for a former president of the United States under the auspices of a Torture and Terrorism treaty, you have plausible pre-September 11 scenario. There is a combination dramatic legal arguments and a globe hopping President attempting to stay one step ahead of the process servers in a chartered 737. AFter a couple of clunkers, it was good to read a well-paced and well thought out book.
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