Dragon Strike

by Simon Holberton and Humphrey Hawksley

Book Overview

The year is 2001. In a surprise two-pronged dawn sweep, Chinese war-planes attack Vietnamese naval and airforce installations, plunging the world into crisis. A fiction - or faction - written in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312205317
• ISBN13: 9780312205317
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The best future conflict book yet

This book is without doubt the best work done on a possible future conflict. Makes books like the "The Third World War" and "Red Storm Rising" appear amateurish in comparison. Attention given to details of both political and military actions is amazing. Best of all is the fact that the book is free from moralising sermons or two dimensional characters.

Compelling Newspaper Reports

Dragonstrike is a different style of storytelling. There are no real central characters or narrative, just a series of newspaper reports detailing major incidents (although there is a narrative about an English family preparing for the holocaust: very grim).This style makes the story seem a lot more authentic, but also presents baffling stats and figures for people without knowledge of military/economic affairs.In so far as this is alternate future history I found the book satisfying: a book ABOUT events, not a detective/murder/love story set amongst great events.The book is very believeable, and the fact that China was willing to sacrifice itself on the altar of nuclear fire was an indication of the mentality of the leadership not of the people.What this book teaches us is that war will never be simple again: because of the levarage of global and multinational corporations.

The best of its kind

One of the best books I have ever read on the subject. Gives critical analysis, written in a semi-fictional form, based on real world reports.If you can't understand why so many view China with unease, you have to read this book.

A thought provoking, disturbing but accurate potrayal of WW3

In the light of recent events in the region, this book presents a disturbing acount of how this very real conflict may escalate. Refreshingly, attention is given to the political, economic, social and technological consequences of such a conflict. An addictive read.

Hard to put down.

A brilliant easy to read insight into that area of the world. So fascinating that I checked with a friend based in Hong Kong who studies and lectures on the history of that region. He said that the political positions are portrayed accurately. Results of these positions projected into the future are likely. Scary scary scary!