Headwind

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Summary: Take A Bus
Review: When Peru issues an arrest warrant for an ex-president of the United States claiming his responsibility (by proxy) for the torture and slaughter of Peruvian employees inside a biological weapons factory, it falls upon the shoulders of Pilot Craig Dayton and former Texas judge (recently re-instated from suspension international attorney) Jay Reinhart to save the day and keep the ex-president from being sent to almost certain conviction in the Peruvian courts. It's hard to decide what the focus of this novel was supposed to be. Is it a political statement concerning making national leaders responsible for the orders they issue to murder the civilians of the places they invade? Or maybe it's an observation about how legislation of any kind in any venue can be manipulated to serve the purpose of whatever villain comes along. Or maybe the purpose is to portray the ways in which lawyers really don't care whether they win or lose; what they care about is who becomes Master of the Game with the best overall legal strategy. In other words, it's all just a game of chess for sophisticated legal minds. Then again, it could be about men who have monumental egos and the women who love them. This novel had good potential with such multifaceted possibilities. Unfortunately it didn't really deliver on any of them. The characters were not very well drawn, especially the chief troublemaker, Sir Stuart Campbell. He's somewhat of a cross between Donald Trump and Johnny Cochran only without the humility. And when all of these components are set for the most part aboard a Boeing 747, it all becomes... well, rather silly.