THING OF STATE: A Novel - Hardcover

Drury, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684807025 ISBN 13: 9780684807027

Publisher: Scribner, 1995

Synopsis

U.S. Secretary of State Raymond Cass Stanley faces the ultimate challenge when he is forced to confront the leader of an oil-rich Middle East country that has obtained nuclear weapons and threatens to invade a neighboring nation

About this title

About the Author:

Allen Drury was a Washington correspondent for UPI, the Washington Star, and the New York Times.

From Publishers Weekly:

In his 13th novel about the inner machinations of Washington, Drury, whose Advise and Consent won a Pulitzer, conjurs up a believable worst-case scenario about the consequences of our failure to bring the Gulf War to a satisfactory end. By 1999, Sidi bin Sidi bin Sidi, the power-crazed Middle Eastern dictator of fictional Greater Lolome, has managed to acquire several atomic bombs and is blackmailing the free world, demanding dominion over oil-rich neighbor Lesser Lolome. Confronted with possible global (and personal) disaster, the self-centered U.S. president shrewdly and sinisterly sees the threat as an opportunity to reestablish his popularity and ensure reelection. So by default, Secretary of State Ray Shepard, a patriotic career diplomat, is faced with the dilemma of saving the country-and the world. With a cast of nicely fleshed-out stereotypes from the executive and legislative branches and the media, and with a roll call of world powers along embassy row and at the U.N., Drury provides an intriguing and gossipy insider's reminder of the ever-present atomic predicament. Despite an overly expository beginning and prose that occasionally resembles a jungle thicket, the narrative quickly gathers pace and sweeps readers along toward a chilling conclusion.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684807025
• ISBN 13: 9780684807027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384