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Title: Line of Succession
Author: Brian Garfield
Narrator: J. D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-17-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Five bombs upend the foundation of the American government.
Sturka is an artist with explosives. A sturdy man approaching middle age, he learned his trade on the darkest battlefields of the 20th century: Indochina, Palestine, Guyana, Biafra, and the fetid jungles of South America, where he fought alongside Che Guevera but was quick enough not to die with him. He doesnt know where his new employers hail from; he only knows how well they pay. Today he packs plastic explosives into the false bottoms of three handbags and two suitcases, to be left at strategic locations around Washington, D. C.
But this is no ordinary caf bombing. Today Sturka targets the men at the top of the American government. The attack causes a crisis of succession, the likes of which America has never seen. If the right man doesnt take charge quickly, the country will tear itself apart.
Members Reviews:
LIKE STEPPING IN DOG POOP.
I read the review and bought the book. It started wonderful and became dull and tedious once the opening excitement ended. Its like going down a slide and landing in a pile of dog poop. It doesn't kill you but it does stink. I really wanted to like it. Its an early effort by Garfield, later books are better reads.
Presidential succession in an action-adventure context
This book, written about thirty years ago, is an action-adventure novel dealing with issues of presidential succession and disability. The book raises issues that could easily arise today, probably (but not necessarily) in a less dramatic context. The vice-president and speaker are killed in a terrorist attack, the president-elect is kidnapped then killed, and the president pro tem is politically unacceptable to both political parties, so the defeated outgoing president schemes to amend the Presidential Succession Act so that he can stay in office instead of handing over power. (The book sidesteps a potential problem with the twenty-second amendment because the outgoing president has served only one term.) The action is plausible, and the author correctly applies the relevant constitutional and legal provisions without letting them get in the story's way. A good, fast, provocative read that, even after thirty years, requires little suspension of disbelief.
Five Stars
Very good
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Title: Line of Succession
Author: Brian Garfield
Narrator: J. D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-17-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Five bombs upend the foundation of the American government.
Sturka is an artist with explosives. A sturdy man approaching middle age, he learned his trade on the darkest battlefields of the 20th century: Indochina, Palestine, Guyana, Biafra, and the fetid jungles of South America, where he fought alongside Che Guevera but was quick enough not to die with him. He doesnt know where his new employers hail from; he only knows how well they pay. Today he packs plastic explosives into the false bottoms of three handbags and two suitcases, to be left at strategic locations around Washington, D. C.
But this is no ordinary caf bombing. Today Sturka targets the men at the top of the American government. The attack causes a crisis of succession, the likes of which America has never seen. If the right man doesnt take charge quickly, the country will tear itself apart.
Members Reviews:
LIKE STEPPING IN DOG POOP.
I read the review and bought the book. It started wonderful and became dull and tedious once the opening excitement ended. Its like going down a slide and landing in a pile of dog poop. It doesn't kill you but it does stink. I really wanted to like it. Its an early effort by Garfield, later books are better reads.
Presidential succession in an action-adventure context
This book, written about thirty years ago, is an action-adventure novel dealing with issues of presidential succession and disability. The book raises issues that could easily arise today, probably (but not necessarily) in a less dramatic context. The vice-president and speaker are killed in a terrorist attack, the president-elect is kidnapped then killed, and the president pro tem is politically unacceptable to both political parties, so the defeated outgoing president schemes to amend the Presidential Succession Act so that he can stay in office instead of handing over power. (The book sidesteps a potential problem with the twenty-second amendment because the outgoing president has served only one term.) The action is plausible, and the author correctly applies the relevant constitutional and legal provisions without letting them get in the story's way. A good, fast, provocative read that, even after thirty years, requires little suspension of disbelief.
Five Stars
Very good