Herman, Richard Edge of Honor ISBN 13: 9780380976997

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The most influential men in Russia, including the country's corrupt head of state, have gathered in a Moscow cemetery in the dead of winter to bury a fallen comrade. Before the ceremony has concluded, however, blood will stain the snow-covered ground, and Russia's ultimate power will have fallen into the hands of a man of ruthless and insane ambition.

U.S. President Madeline Turner has already weathered global crises, treachery, and insurrection in her own cabinet during the first months of her administration, and it has made her a stronger, more able leader. But her effectiveness will be tested to its limits now that the balance of power has shifted dangerously and dramatically in Europe. Closer to home, a small personal emergency has brought a one-time hero and Air Force legend into her life: Matt Pontowski, who will become the proud, capable yet lonely and beleaguered Commander-in-Chief's confidant, friend, and more.

Meanwhile, a fearsome, re-emergent Russian bear is on a rampage, spurred on by a criminal government in control of an awesome military arsenal. A suddenly vulnerable Poland faces invasion and possible extinction--not only from Russia, but from a newly emboldened expansionist Germany. And soon a brazen act of aggression has locked a determined Maddy Turner into a war of wits and weaponry with the fearless cabal of drug runners and murderers who now rule a one--time empire--a war that could reshape the face of the world and the future of freedom, and decide the fate of the President herself; whether she lives or dies.

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A former weapons system operator, Richard Herman was a member of the United States Air Force for twenty-one years, until he retired in 1983 with the rank of major. He is the author of ten previous novels, including The Warbirds, Power Curve, Against All Enemies, Edge of Honor, and The Trojan Sea, all published by Avon Books. Herman currently lives and works in Gold River, a suburb of Sacramento, California.

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Despite a myriad of subplots and characters, Herman's latest intricately woven, grandly schemed techno-melodrama (after Against All Enemies) delivers solid entertainment with nary a hitch. Set in 2002, it continues the travails of Madeline (Maddy) Turner, introduced in Power Curve. Having succeeded her husband after his assassination, Maddy, a highly capable though emotionally vulnerable mother of two, has become the first woman president of the U.S. Trouble is brewing in Russia as Mikhail Vashin, a wealthy megalomaniac Mafiya powerbroker, plots to use Germany as his unwitting ally in a scheme to make Poland the center for international traffic in drugs, sex, money laundering and contraband military technology. When it becomes obvious there is skullduggery afoot, savvy President Turner sends ranking Air Force General Robert Bender to Poland as ambassador. On the domestic front, during a visit to New Mexico where her 14-year-old son is in military school, Maddy becomes infatuated with General Matt Pontowski, the dashing pilot who is the father of her son's roommate. Because she plans to mount her own campaign to become her party's first official female presidential candidate, however, Maddy accepts the reality that she must put her feminine yearning aside. After Matt is sent to train Polish pilots, Ambassador Bender is assassinated and Maddy's old political nemesis, Senator Leland, blackmails her into appointing Matt's avowed enemy to fill the vacancy. Orchestrated against the counter-perils of innocent teenagers who become the targets of the Russian mob, tension builds inside the guarded meeting rooms of the White House. Herman deftly negotiates murderous chicanery, political hanky-panky, gripping air combat and steamy sex in a sweeping political epic of post-Cold War power struggles. (July)
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  • PublisherWilliam Morrow
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0380976994
  • ISBN 13 9780380976997
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages416
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