[Red Dragon Rising 01] • Shadows of War
- Authors
- Bond, Larry & DeFelice, Jim
- Publisher
- Forge Books
- Tags
- war , thriller
- ISBN
- 9780765321374
- Date
- 2009-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.77 MB
- Lang
- en
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> Building off the World War III premise Larry Bond helped Tom Clancy to establish, *Red Storm Rising, *this new series looks at the world under an omnipresent Chinese superpower.
**In the not-too-distant future, massive climate change has wracked the globe. China's rice-growing regions have been devastated by typhoons, while its western breadbasket is suffering from three years of drought. Riots threaten to tear the country apart. With the old-guard Chinese government paralyzed by the crisis, a young, charismatic party leader steps to the fore. His solution to the unrest is a time-tested one — conquest of China's neighbors.
And after that, the world.
Josh MacArthur, a mild-mannered American scientist studying climate change in northern Vietnam, is the only witness to a clever attempt by the Chinese to make it appear that Vietnam started the war. Escaping a massacre, he manages to gather critical evidence that could turn world opinion against China.
Unfortunately, the Chinese learn of MacArthur's survival, and of the information he carries. A former Ch'an fighting monk turned commando is sent to capture him. Mara Duncan, a CIA agent, is also on MacArthur's trail. The American scientist has become the subject of a deadly race in the jungles of northern Vietnam, with the fate of the world in his hands.