TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drury,Allen
TI  - A thing of state: a novel 
SN  - 0684807025
AV  - PS 3554 D796t 1995
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - International relations
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - lcsh
N1  - "A Lisa Drew book."
N2  - A Middle East dictator acquires the atom bomb and threatens to use it if anyone prevents his takeover of an oil-rich neighbor. The novel follows the world's reaction--from the vacillations of the UN secretary-general to the wiles of the U.S. president who spots an opportunity for re-election
ER  -