Headwind
Written by John J. Nance
Narrated by John J. Nance
4/5
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About this audiobook
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.
John J. Nance
John J. Nance, aviation analyst for ABC News and a familiar face on Good Morning America, is the author of seventeen books, including Fire Flight, Skyhook, Turbulence, and Headwind. Two of his novels, Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child, have been made into highly successful television miniseries. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Nance is a decorated pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield. He lives in University Place, Washington.
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Reviews for Headwind
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Disclaimer: I love any John Nance novel. I have no objectivity whatsoever. Headwind is his latest and it's as good as the rest which is to say, great. Former President, John Harris is heading back home from Rome. He's in the plane and they are getting ready for takeoff when the crew leans that they've been ordered to stop and wait for the Italian authorities to serve an arrest warrant to be served on Harris for crimes he is allegedly responsible for in Peru. He does not get arrested and the rest of the book is a thrill ride about how that arrest didn't happen.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Solid, riveting thriller revolving around an ex-President's attempt to avoid extradition to Peru on false charges stemming from a raid on a Peruvian drug factory that killed a number of innocent civilians while he was in office. Author Nance uses his vast knowledge of aeronautics to spin a complex tale that moves as fast as the 737 airliner that serves as the backdrop for the book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nance is a lawyer and a pilot and this book shows his ability with both. The plot opens on a routine stop of a flight in Athens where the Greeks try to arrest a former U.S. President on a warrant issued by Peru for crimes committed during a drug raid he ordered while in office. The pilot of the plane decides rather than allow this to happen, he takes off from the gate without permission and gets into the air to gain time to sort out what is going on. So begins a hopscotch game of cat and mouse with the president to be arrested in any country they land. Unable to reach America in the 737, the pilot and the president's lawyer try figure out where to land and how to keep the president from being extradited, where he will be quickly tried and executed. I love thrillers and this is a good one. I read the entire book in one day. I couldn't put it down, even though I was bone tired and not feeling well. The legal mumbo jumbo is kept to a minimum. What is there is understandable, even though it is obvious that it is complicated. Throughout the book, airplanes figure in at every angle with plenty of action to keep it interesting. I enjoyed the explanations of behind the scenes protocol of commercial airlines. Good book.