HEADWIND John J. Nance FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING

Description: Nice copy of this John J. Nance FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING Hardcover. The inside front page has a crumble/fold (see photo). About the Book: In Athens, a Boeing 737 noses into the gate, and its crew is suddenly confronted by Greek officials waiting to arrest one of its passengers, a beloved ex-President of the United States, John Harris. Captain Craig Dayton, believing Harris' life is in danger, stages a daring escape by backing the jet away from the gate without clearance and taking off down a vacant runway. The dilemma for Captain Dayton and his precious cargo is that Peru has signed an Interpol warrant for President Harris' arrest, using the same treaty employed to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The Peruvian government alleges that Harris is personally responsible for a supposed CIA-led strike against a biological weapons factory during his term of office. But the nightmare for Harris—and the U.S. State Department—is this: There is no place to hide, because almost every nation in the world has signed the treaty and every one of them must honor the warrant and give Peru what it wants—a president to humiliate on the international stage. Captain Dayton flies Harris and his crew on an against-the-clock mission around the world to find a safe haven, while Harris' rumpled and out-gunned lawyer wrestles an international team of legal sharks snapping at their biggest prize yet. — Reader Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down!!!!!! 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. — 5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent John Nance novel! After reading nearly all of John Nance novels and enjoying all of them I might be repetitive in my constant praise of his talent, but it is true because his novels are so good. Headwind is the mixture of adventure when the former US President is trying to find a country where his plane could land and a legal battle carried out on his behalf to prevent his extradition on trumped up charges to another country bent on that President's destruction. With the ex- President's plane flying from one country to another and with teams of lawyers waiting in each country with the extradition warrant the tension is mounting from page to page. What is truly amazing in Headwind that even usually boring for me court trials and legal procedures kept me really interested and tense. Time well spent reading that book! — 5.0 out of 5 stars Another cliff hanger!!! I just love John Nance's books. He is so well accomplished he boggles my pea brain. My only criticism is the length of the books. I want it all now,so, he makes me read for the end of the novel!

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