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  Alexander Haig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An assassination attempt on Haig was uncovered and prevented in Brussels in 1979.
Nevertheless, Haig was incorrect in his interpretation of the United States Constitution as far as both the presidential line of succession is concerned and in regard to the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution which deals with what happens when a president is incapacitated.
Haig met with both the British government in London and the Argentine government in Buenos Aires but talks broke down and Haig returned to Washington on April 19.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Haig   (584 words)

  
 Mail Tribune Business
Brian Haig is the new president of Erickson Air Crane.
Haig, son of former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, is a former Army officer and Ranger.
Brian Haig is the son of Alexander Haig, the four-star general who was chief of staff for President Nixon and secretary of state for Ronald Reagan.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/98/aug98/81098b1.htm   (794 words)

  
 BookPage Interview January 2003: Brian Haig
Haig is the son of former Army General and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.
In the early and mid-1990s, Haig became special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John M. Shalikashvili, a role that gave him an insider's perspective on geopolitical affairs.
Haig convincingly suggests that a shadowy group of oligarchs might have been the main force behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's rapid ascent to power.
www.bookpage.com /0301bp/brian_haig.html   (604 words)

  
 Author's Summer Reading List - Brian Haig
Brian Haig is a West Point graduate and a career infantry officer and military strategist.
Sean Drummond is back-fresh from his triumph in Brian Haig's bestselling debut novel, Secret Sanction, which was hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle for its "unexpected twists...rich plotting, and moral ambiguity." Once again, Drummond ventures abroad to tackle a volatile murder case with unexpected global consequences.
Ominously, the victim happens to be the son of a venerated war hero currently serving as South Korea's defense minister.
www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer02/haig.asp   (205 words)

  
 CNN.com - Review: 'Allies' guilty -- of thrills - July 5, 2002
Haig affects a breezy first-person style of storytelling that seems designed to highlight the quirky personality of Drummond more than illuminate the plot twists.
While Haig seems to be setting the stage for a courtroom drama, Drummond takes a sharp detour into a very different kind of story -- one filled with car crashes, gunplay and more hospital rooms than courtrooms.
Haig turns the conventions of the legal thriller inside out to produce a story that races toward its climax at breakneck speed.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/07/05/review.allies   (494 words)

  
 Brian Haig, Mortal Allies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The first tape of Brian Haig's Mortal Allies is truly a turn off.
Haig, currently living in New Jersey, graduated from West Point and retired from the Army after serving as special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He is the son of former Secretary of State Alexander Haig.
www.rambles.net /haig_audiomortal.html   (464 words)

  
 Rambles: Brian Haig, Private Sector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
If you are familiar with Brian Haig's novels then you know who Sean Drummond is -- a brash Army attorney whose mouth will keep you as entertained as his stories will.
Brian, Sean and John have joined forces again for the audiobook Private Sector.
If you are new to Brian Haig novels but like the thought of an Army attorney whose exciting adventures take him all around the world running into more sinister plots than he has a right to experience, then Private Sector is an acceptable place to start.
www.rambles.net /haig_audiopvtsec03.html   (527 words)

  
 TheBookHaven.net - Secret Sanction - Brian Haig
The investigation, its roadblocks, and all the politics of war are played out for a worldwide audience in Brian Haig's debut novel.
Haig draws from his career as a military strategist to craft an exciting story set amongst Bosnian turmoil.
Brian Haig's novel holds weight and is certainly strong enough to support future military thrillers.
thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Secret_Sanction.html   (271 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Secret Sanction: Books: Brian Haig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Haig might have spent more time making his secondary characters as interesting as his protagonist and tightened up his narrative.
Brian Haig, son of former secretary of state Alexander Haig, takes aim at the bestseller lists with Secret Sanction, a military/legal thriller set against the backdrop of the Bosnian conflict.
Brian Haig (son of Alexander Haig) is a fresh new "voice" in popular fiction.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446527432?v=glance   (1942 words)

  
 Assoc. Prof. Brian Haig - People - Department of Psychology - University of Canterbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Brian's work in these areas are characterized and held together by a commitment to a scientific realist view of science.
Haig, B.D. Exploratory factor analysis, abduction, and the principle of the common cause.
Haig, B. Statistical methods in psychology and education: A critical perspective.
www.psyc.canterbury.ac.nz /people/haig.shtml   (333 words)

  
 US involved in Saddam's gassings
HAIG: If I may-if I may ask these two this question because this is a-this is a fallacy that is put out a lot, that we gave chemical, biological or nuclear technologies to Iraq.
BRIAN HAIG: You know, one of the key points here that's being overlooked-and I know there's never a popular case to be made for why to go to war.
HAIG: And then in 1994 and '95 - and I believe this is why you became head of the concealment unit-what we discovered from two different Iraqis was that they had lied about what they possessed.
www.representativepress.org /USinvolved.html   (6646 words)

  
 TheBookHaven.net - Mortal Allies - Brian Haig
Haig chooses to have his lead character struggle with his own opinion of homosexuality while vowing to provide Whitehall the very best defense.
Haig does a great job of casting doubt on every character and raising the suspense level for readers.
Brian Haig has written two good stories around this JAG lawyer.
thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Mortal_Allies.html   (438 words)

  
 >☞ Buy cheapest Mortal Allies Mortal Allies in » Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is my first Brian Haig thriller (borrowed from my husband while we were on vacation and I was out of reading material) and I found I enjoyed it a whole lot more than I first thought.
haig has to be aware that trying every sentence or page to be funny is actually very tiresome for a serious reader to become part of it.
Haig brings us to the precipice in all of the (currently) four novels, but unlike Lescroart for one or Margolin, we never seem to get into the trial.
www.myfinanceaid.com /mortal-allies,0446612588_i.htm   (1765 words)

  
 Brian Haig: Gen. Boykin Is a Hero, Not a Villain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Brian Haig, son of retired Gen. Alexander Haig, the former secretary of state and supreme commander of NATO, worked with Boykin on the Joint Staff and feels strongly that he needs to be humanized.
Haig laments that Boykin’s words were “taken out of context” and that at all times the general was not indicting a religion but rather a “wing of fanatics.”
Haig admits that indeed there is a semantic issue with American officials who choose to stand clear of any references to a religious war.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/11/14/144642.shtml   (837 words)

  
 ClevelandSeniors.Com - Arts & Leisure - Books - Secret Sanction
A wonderfully suspenseful first novel by Brian Haig, himself a graduate of the Academy at West Point and a 22 year Army veteran.
He also happens to be the son of Alexander Haig, Secretary of State for President Ronald Reagan.
Haig created Sean Drummond to be a cocky, brash, humorous, and believable enough for both men and women.
www.clevelandseniors.com /entertainment/brevsanc.htm   (242 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Mortal Allies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Brian Haig knows how to balance the character's clever attitude with the gripping suspense involved in unraveling the truth behind the crime and he pulls the reader in from the first page making it nearly impossible to set the book down until the last word has been read.
Although he hasn't seen her since law school 8 years earlier where they nearly came to fist fights on a daily basis for three years, it's apparent that she hates him loves him can't stand to be in the same room with him needs him, and Sean plays it well.
If there's a hubris in Brian Haig's Sean Drummond, it's that he's too heroic and too intelligent to be such a buffoon when it comes to the opposite sex.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0446612588   (1565 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - MORTAL ALLIES by Brian Haig
Haig's sophomore effort is a solid, confident one.
Haig does a masterful job of building suspense as Drummond, and the reader, attempt to discern the guilt or innocence of his client.
Haig, considering his professional and personal background, undoubtedly has many more stories upon which to base many, many more novels.
aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/0446530263.asp   (449 words)

  
 Big Cat Chronicles :: Brian Haig's "The President's Assassin" book review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Haig is a talented writer but his latest work is mediocre at best and a poor showcase for his greater talent.
It was also mildly entertaining to view inter-agency “cooperation,” a la Haig, as the various characters seek to CYA in heaping globs, all hoping POTUS will not die but if he does, also hoping it’s due to some other agency’s failure.
Haig is at his best when centers his stories in military environments, with the juxtaposition of Sean against Imelda.
bigcatchronicles.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2005/6/8/920223.html   (1121 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mortal Allies (Wheeler Large Print Hardcover Series): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Ordered to Seoul to assist a civilian lawyer representing an army captain charged with raping and murdering the son of the South Korean defense minister, Sean is chagrined to discover that he's second-chairing his old law school rival, the brilliant, beautiful Katherine Carlson, who's famous for challenging the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
While Katherine is almost a parody of a legal provocateur, Sean comes across as an engaging fellow with a ready wit, a well-honed legal mind, and a willingness to confront his own prejudices that wins the reader's admiration.
Haig's hero (back in action after his turn in Secret Sanction) cracks wise with refreshingly derogatory humor, skewering diplomats, bleeding hearts, religious nuts, military homophobes and gay activists alike while skillfully untangling the issue of gays in the military.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/158724294X?v=glance   (2558 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Mortal Allies: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Haig has come on in leaps and bounds since his first novel.
Haig manages to combine gay rape, murder, possible necrophilia, along with Communist spying, the rantings of the religious-right and homophobia into a very taughtly written book.
Haig returns with his wise-cracking hero, military lawyer (and handliy, former army special forces operative), and things just keep getting better for us readers (and tougher for hero, Major Sean Drummond).
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752842722   (835 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSIN by Brian Haig
Haig takes Drummond out of the office and courtroom and puts him in the field when he is loaned --- or, as Drummond tells us, banished --- to a CIA sub-agency called The Office of Special Projects.
The book begins with Drummond accompanying a beautiful and subtly beguiling FBI agent to a home in a posh Washington, D.C. suburb, which is the scene of a terrifying mass murder.
Haig has pulled off a neat trick here with Drummond.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0446576670.asp   (487 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Kingmaker, The/Abridged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Haig's third Drummond adventure (after Mortal Allies) rolls along in high spirits, mixing clever cloak-and-dagger tricks, gutsy heroics and edgy, often humorous dialogue.
Brian Haig burst on the scene a couple of years ago, and with only three novels under his belt he has become one of my MUST READ authors.
His writing is style smooth, his pacing brisk, and his plots are gripping...if you have not discovered Haig yet, do yourself a favor and read him, he is that good.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/158621411X   (1104 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The President's Assassin: Books: Brian Haig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Haig makes us care what happens by avoiding genre clichés whenever possible and by creating much sympathy for the relatives left behind in the carnage.
This was my first exposure to the writing of Brian Haig and his character, Army JAG Major Sean Drummond.
In partnership with Jennifer Margold, a special FBI Agent attached to the DC field office and Drummond on assignment to the CIA Office of Special Projects, are part of the team that is called to investigate the murder of the President's Chief of Staff, his wife and four of his protectors.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446576670?v=glance   (1833 words)

  
 Alibris: Haig
In this powerful work by one of our most revered statesmen, Alexander Haig offers a frank and revealing account of his remarkable military and political career serving in the administrations of five U.S. presidents.
Sure to be one of the most important political works of this decade, it is an eye-opening, definitive account of what really goes on...
In December 1950, the skeleton crew of the merchant ship, "The Meredith Victory" rescued 14,000 Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly approaching Chinese army in the city of Hungnam.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Haig   (997 words)

  
 Private Sector
Reach for a series that is meant to be addictive: Brian Haig's JAG series.
Lead narrator is actor John Rubinstein, already a veteran to the Haig series, having narrated Secret Sanction, Moral Allies and The Kingmaker.
Actor Michael Emerson reads the part of the killer, and he does a good job; especially chilling is the deep, mechanical voice.
www.myshelf.com /mystery/03/privatesector.htm   (259 words)

  
 FictionAddiction.NET - Bookworm's Book Review: The President's Assassin
The mastermind behind this killing spree is always one step ahead of them, leaving no doubt as to whom is in control.
Brian Haig’s fifth novel featuring Sean Drummond is the best yet.
Haig once again combines this appealing character with a top-notch storyline and comes out a winner.
reviews.fictionaddiction.net /presidentsassassin.html   (390 words)

  
 Private Sector -- book review
Her journey across an ocean and through three marriages, a daughter's birth, poverty, wealth, and accusations of murder and witchcraft is dramatized in Jennifer M. Wilson's
A master of bluff and bravado, Haig's Sean Drummond is a most sympathetic character, the kind of guy who is easy to like even with his imperfections.
Haig has a bright future ahead with his fresh voice and penchant for innovative plots.
www.curledup.com /privates.htm   (541 words)

  
 The President's Assassin -- book review
As they race against time to uncover the secrets, the pivotal question this duo faces is whether this is some vast international conspiracy or a deadly personal vendetta disguised to thwart them.
Brian Haig brings back the wisecracking Sean Drummond in this latest thriller, much to the joy of his fans.
The thrill factor is boundless, as is the enlightening look Haig provides into the twisted psyche of the evil mastermind as well as others.
www.curledup.com /presassa.htm   (430 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The President's Assassin at Epinions.com
If the name Haig sounds familiar to you, writer (and I use the term loosely) Brian is the son of Reagan Secretary of State Alexander "I'm in charge here!" Haig.
A so-so writer with the instincts of a twelve-year-old, Haig has created a main character who's custom-tailored to the "Simpsons"/"Malcolm in the Middle" generation of smart-aleck superannuated teenagers.
Obviously, Haig was staring at a famous Mattel doll while designing Margold - all she lacks is a boyfriend named Ken, a pair of silver FMPs, and a Malibu beach house.
www.epinions.com /content_176171945604   (876 words)

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