I love it when good triumphs over evil, don't you!? 
Thanks, Jeff, for the post and the book!
Posted on 07/10/2002 9:27:58 AM PDT by Jeff Head
I am so proud of you.
I love it when good triumphs over evil, don't you!?
Thanks, Jeff, for the post and the book!
That means if Jeff or even I want to write a book about America being conquered by a race of monkeys that fly out of Oprah's butt, we can.
If you get a chance to, I hope you really enjoy the entire series.
FRegards!
Man oh man, that review took my breath away ... and I wrote the book you are talking about! Made me want to read it myself again! LOL!
Here it is, and they have it up on all of the pages (Printed and both eBooks):
At the outset, let me say that I am not normally a fan of the political intrigue novel. I usually read horror fiction, but made an exception for this book because the excerpts I had read on the internet hooked me. Breath of Fire is every bit as intriguing as the techno-military parts of Stephen King's "The Stand", where the biological warfare agent gets loose, and world societies begin to unravel.I DEVOURED this book in two days, taking only that long because of work and family commitments.
I have often believed that if America ever does fail, it will be because of our own short attention span. We set up technology transfers for our enemies, our politically correct society urges immigrants and ethnic groups to retain their culture, politics, languages, etc, rather than becoming Americans. We eschew God and morality and patriotism. Even after the cruel bucket of cold water the US got thrown in its' face on 9/11, we have already started to forget why we were mad, and get back to life as usual.
Jeff's book is all about this and more. It is about an America that had forgotten it had enemies, and realized too late(??) that those enemies had not been slack in their efforts to bring her down. If the scenes of paratroopers landing on American soil in the motion picture "Red Dawn" made you uneasy, this book will keep you awake all night. If the images painted in the novel "Warday" of nuclear devastation caused by a surprise attack on America disturbed you, Breath of Fire will have you putting nitro pills under your tongue.
The last 100 pages of this book are paced like the Concorde, and the American Eagle was well entangled in her enemy's nets, and bleeding by the segue into volume II.
Jeff's book will get into your head and you'll find yourself asking, although it is fiction, "Hey, didn't I hear something on the news about that??" It is THAT real.
Breath of Fire is every bit as addicting as Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and BOTH will hit you in the gut.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
You have email.
Please read the review I posted from Amazon in post number 108. It is a doosey!
FRegards!
Read the latest review off of Amazon I copied on post numnber 108 on this thread. Blew me away.
Fregards.
You can always volunteer to work in a sweatshop making shoes, toys, etc. if you really want to. But most Americans don't want to. Do you yourself want to? Probably not. And why did US firms set up factories in low-cost China in the first place? Answer: Because their US customers have an insatiable, endless lust for low-priced goods. It's US consumers' own lust for bargains which has motivated US companies to set up factories in low-cost China in the first place. China doesn't force any American to shop at Wal-Mart, but Americans flock to Wal-Mart every day of their own free will. You and some other Americans may not like how America now is economically dependent on China, but it's a situation you yourself created because of your bargain-loving ways. That is why your book is so ridiculous. Instead of getting angry about America's lust for cheap goods, you want to somehow blame China for an economic-dependence situation your own bargain-hunting ways created.
You're probably a wild eyed optimist if you think events will take that long to unfold. I'd say more like December 2004 or shortly thereafter. The only reason it will be that late is that the PRC, et. al., wouldn't want to encourge the people of the US to elect the "wrong" person.
Gosh that really makes those of us who have read it, and especially those of us with a "hard" copy, members of a pretty exclusive club.
How many of those factories are foreign owned anyway. I suspect most are majority owned by the Chinese government, with the "foreign" partner providing the technology and reaping only a share of the profits. Much of the rest goes directly to the PLA. (Peoples Liberation Army). In fact the part of the government that owns the majority stake often is the PLA.
You also didn't address the issue of "slave labor". Many of the factories are staffed by political prisoners. Nobody "volunteered" to work in those. This is less likely to be the case in a weapons facotry of course, too much potential for sabotage or turning the "product" on the "management".
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