Edge of Honor - Softcover

Herman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380802694 ISBN 13: 9780380802692

Publisher: Avon, 2000

Synopsis

Madeline Turner, the first female U.S. President, has already weathered global crises during the first months of her administration. But the balance of power has suddenly shifted dangerously and dramatically in Europe—the Russian government has fallen into the hands of a criminal—and a fearsome, re-emergent bear is on a rampage. Locked into a war of wits and weaponry with the deadly cabal of drug runners and murderers who now rule a one-time empire, Maddy Turner will need capable allies beside her—like Air Force legend Matt Pontowski, who will become the beleaguered Commander-in-Chief's confidant, friend, and more. An explosive confrontation is coming that could reshape the face of the world—and the fate of President Turner herself.

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About the Author

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.

From Publishers Weekly

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0380802694
• ISBN 13: 9780380802692
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464