Balance of power
By: Richard North Patterson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
Subjects: Firearms -- Law and legislation -- Fiction; Firearms industry and trade -- Fiction; Presidents' spouses -- Fiction; Gun control -- Fiction; Presidents -- Fiction; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and the crush the most powerful lobby in Washington- the Son's of the Second Amendment (SSA).