Balance of Power

A BLOCKBUSTER TALE OF TERRORISM, NAVALACTION, LEGAL INTRIGUE, AND A HISTORICSHOWDOWN ON CAPITOL HILL.

When pirates hijack the world's fastest merchant ship in a ruthless plan to spark all international incdent, the attack provokes a constitutional crisis-- and threatens to split U.S. goverment down the middle.

Jim Dillon, special assistant to the Speaker of the House, discovers a longforgotten clause the Constitution that allows Congress to take military action wihout presidential approval, and his ambitious boss sees an opportunity to humiliate his rival ill the Oval Office. The case moves swiftly toward the Supreme Court while over in tile Pacific, a rogue U.S. Navy battle group races toward a deadly rendezvous with the terrorists.

Flashing between the clash in Washington and the approaching battIe in the Pacific, Balance Of Power blends political battles, legal skirmishes, and naval warfare into action-filled blockbuster- entertainment.