Executive Power (Mitch Rapp, #6)

by Vince Flynn

To make peace, one often had to make war.

The director of the CIA returned to find a shell-shocked president and a very agitated secretary of defense. “Mr. President, this embargo could be construed as an act of war.” “That’s interesting, Rick,” chimed Secretary of State Berg. “That’s what the Japanese said when we placed an oil and steel embargo on them back in forty-one.”