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Chain of Command [Mass Market Paperback]

Caspar Weinberger (Author), Peter Schweizer (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)


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September 26, 2006
In this riveting novel by two of Washington's ultimate insiders, the chain of

command is threatened when political power is bought in blood.

Secret Service Agent Michael Delaney has devoted his entire career to protecting America's highest ranking elected officials. But when his gun is found next to the bloody corpse of the President of the United States, he becomes the prime suspect in a brutal assassination that stuns the nation.

As the vice president assumes control of the shaken government, a series of violent terrorist attacks is launched in cities across America, causing the government to take ever more desperate steps to keep the population safe. Shockingly, the resourceful enemy they are fighting comes not from another country but from within America's borders.

Unsure who he can trust, Delaney finds an unexpected ally in Mary Campos, the president's newly appointed terrorism czar. With each passing hour, the potential for catastrophe grows and the web of evidence implicating Delaney in the plot grows more convincing. It will take all his cunning and years of special training to find out who is framing him for the murder of a president. Not only are his reputation and liberty at stake but the liberty of all Americans.

Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and acclaimed writer Peter Schweizer take readers deep inside the U.S. government's secret halls of power. From the Pentagon to Camp David, from the White House Situation Room to the inner sanctums of the FBI, the authors share their intimate knowledge of Washington's behind-the-scenes world to spin an explosive tale of intrigue that is chillingly real and breathtakingly suspenseful.

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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Two term Reagan Secretary of Defense Weinberger collaborating with Schweizer (The Next War) turns in a debut political thriller crackling with a chilling authenticity and riveting dirty dealing. When Secret Service Special Agent Michael Delaney, a longtime member of the presidential security detail, awakes blearily one morning at Camp David, he discovers that someone's swapped guns with him—and within minutes, the president and vice president are shot with Delaney's own Beretta. Before the wounded VP is taken to surgery, he's sworn in as president; moments later, multiple cities get hit in small but lethal coordinated attacks. The new POTUS, who sees opportunity in disaster, declares a state of national emergency, putting the entire nation under martial law, then prepares to take out a right-wing militia on whom he has pinned the attacks. Before a highly skeptical Delaney can catch his breath, he finds himself accused of being complicit in hitting the president and VP. The novel tracks, over nine days, the particulars of the White House power grab and Delaney's desperate attempts to derail it, both in the District and in some tense encounters with the Appalachia-based right-wingers. Despite some stilted dialogue, Weiberger and Schweizer have delivered a superbly paced, tightly plotted winner. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Two presidents die in this D.C. political yarn. Authors Weinberger (defense secretary under Reagan) and Schweizer (a journalist) set their novel in the present and imagine a rubout of the president at Camp David. Vice-President Boyd assumes the office and swings into action, ostensibly to energize the war on terrorism. As the investigation into the assassination proceeds--and evidence points to the story's protagonist, fugitive Secret Service agent Michael Delaney--Boyd orders the army into the streets and tries to ram a suspension of civil liberties through Congress. Meanwhile, Delaney, who fortuitously finds friends, cars, cell phones, guns, and other thriller paraphernalia exactly when he needs them, books to Alabama to collar the boss of a fed-hating militia. Learning from him the crucial clue, the existence of a hard drive with the truth about the assassination, Delaney returns to D.C., pursued by a ruthless entity called "Unit P." Always outsmarting Unit P operatives, Delaney retrieves the disk, and--with a timeout for a crash-bang-boom shootout at the Capitol and on the Mall--confronts President Boyd with the despicable facts of his misdeeds. This formula boasts no literary pretensions, just entertaining suspense that will please action-seekers. Gilbert Taylor
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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Star (September 26, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743437748
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743437745
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,264,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A very good book, August 11, 2005
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Douglas Miller (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chain of Command (Hardcover)
It's nice having the former Secretary of Defense write a book as you really get the accuracy of inside the government. I really liked this book and couldn't put it down. It's on the order of the Baldacci books.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars See storylines above, July 19, 2005
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Konrad Kern (OFallon, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chain of Command (Hardcover)
Weinberger and Schweizer have put together a novel that is definitely fast and highly entertaining, with enough thrills to please most thriller fans. The only slight drawback was that the plot seemed just a little farfetched, though it was fun to read.

Recommended for the thrills
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down, May 24, 2006
This review is from: Chain of Command (Hardcover)
I loved the story from the first page. If you want a political thriller that starts on page one and carries through until the end, this is it. Having read other reviews, I believe Mr. Weinberger's past employment may be tainting people's perceptions of the book. People are different in their political stance so they may not like the book based on 'principle' but I truly believe that if you want an exciting read, this will be it. Sadly, it will also be the only as Mr. Weinberger has passed.
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Morgan Boyd, Mary Campos, United States, White House, Secret Service, John Rancy, Paul Miller, Michael Delaney, Bill Fairbank, Camp David, Colonel Campos, President Fairbank, Dirk Pardee, President Boyd, Charles Tunnington, Mark Greene, Special Forces, Senator Tunnington, General Fairbank, Dean Fairbank, Crown Vic, Fear Act, Leonard Smith, North Carolina, Nolan Ferris
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