MORE ABOUT RED REBELLION
"An American nationalist working for a biotechnological company in China seeks redemption for cowardly actions at the Tiananmen Square rebellion. (The author Frank) Barry does a nice job handling not just multiple scenarios and settings, but also the expositional narrative providing background on Chinese culture and politics essential to understand the...story. Barry has a cinematic vision when it comes to conceptualizing a Clancy-style...thriller." Kirkus Discoveries review, November 9, 2007
Front cover Red Rebellion- Pictograph of stylized Chinese dragon, symbol of absolute power.
Military, economic and cultural achievement will crown China as the country likely to surpass the United States in world power. Americans ignore the Middle Kingdom at their peril.
Chinese themes enjoy wide popularity with the interest in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. If you've read Lisa See's Dragon Bones or seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon you understand the call of the Orient.
Now is the time to learn more. Explore the rapid, wasteful and polluting industrialization of China from their perspective. Joseph Kahn in The New York Times of Sunday, October 14, 2007 explores the devastation in detail. And Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming.
Just as in the United States, the food supply is affected. In Red Rebellion, rice is the staple of Chinese cuisine. When an unscrupulous government official decides to take overpopulation into his own hands, agroterrorism is born. You can only imagine the trauma that results.
But you don't have to imagine. Just read the cover story in Newsweek, November 5, 2007. Our food supply, so often taken for granted, is under attack. From natural disaster, as well as human hands, our food is making more and more of us sick. These deliberate acts of agroterrorism uncover a new threat to peace, prosperity, and the American way of life.
Think about the US government, then think about a small group, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party in power. They have control of a bureaucracy reaching into every village in every sector of their country. Social pressure keeps internal peace. Social pressure keeps movement to a minimum. Social pressure stifles freedom.
Enjoy Red Rebellion and your journey to China. They stay along for the ride in Book Two of the China Trilogy, Righteous Fists.
