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A review by joshuamt
The Ghost War by Alex Berenson
3.0
Something "ghost", about war with China. And, found it, Kindle version at my local US library.
Except this was not the book recommended to me by a friend during a morning walk in Shanghai, as being a frightening and predictive look at what a war would look like involving the US and China. That book was "Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War", which I have on hold at the same library.
This book was an enjoyable, if-predictable action/spy novel cross between Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's) and Jack Reacher (Lee Child's), with the hero in this case being John Wells. Yeah, guess there's not a wealth of originality in the genre.
The book was interesting to me mainly for its plot, which was simple but involved authentic-feeling elements of geo-politics (the enemy of my enemy is my friend-type stuff), as well as some Hollywood imagining about top-level Chinese politics. Still, its fun for me to think that somewhere in China and the US these books get read by analysts, and in some government room somebody might have highlighted a few facts and noted, "Hmm, that's more accurate than he realizes..."
Except this was not the book recommended to me by a friend during a morning walk in Shanghai, as being a frightening and predictive look at what a war would look like involving the US and China. That book was "Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War", which I have on hold at the same library.
This book was an enjoyable, if-predictable action/spy novel cross between Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's) and Jack Reacher (Lee Child's), with the hero in this case being John Wells. Yeah, guess there's not a wealth of originality in the genre.
The book was interesting to me mainly for its plot, which was simple but involved authentic-feeling elements of geo-politics (the enemy of my enemy is my friend-type stuff), as well as some Hollywood imagining about top-level Chinese politics. Still, its fun for me to think that somewhere in China and the US these books get read by analysts, and in some government room somebody might have highlighted a few facts and noted, "Hmm, that's more accurate than he realizes..."