Dragon Strike: The Millennium War [Paperback]

Humphrey Hawksley (Author), Simon Holberton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0788159178
• ISBN-13: 978-0788159176
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,770,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a foreign correspondent and the author of best-selling international thrillers. In The History Book, I've used interviews with hundreds of people in dozens of different of countries to draw a credible picture of a scary near-future world and I've created within it Kat Polinski, a bright, vulnerable, unsettled heroine. The first reviews rave about the concept and describe Kat as fabulous, the type of heroine we love to root for. The issues are total government surveillance, contracted out to private companies who control energy supplies for their own gain. True or false? The realistic backdrops match my Dragon trilogy of future global wars and the three stand alone thrillers, mostly set in Asia. But with Kat, I've tried something more ambitious, so please let me know if you think it works.

I live in London and travel crazily. Most recently, I've reported from (in alphabetical order) Brazil, Cyprus, India, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Sweden and all over the US. My website is www.humphreyhawksley.com Send me your thoughts on The History Book or any of my reports. One thing I love is lively debate.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best future conflict book yet, September 29, 2004

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Piyush Kabra (Phoenix, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dragonstrike: The Millennium War (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Fiction/Non-Fiction Novel, February 10, 2006

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Pat W Jusuf "Book Fanatic" (Jakarta, Indonesia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon Strike: The Millennium War (Paperback)

As a work of fiction, this novel I think had surpassed its initial intention as book of fiction. Both writers, based on their previous professions as reporters, had suffused politics, war machines (airplanes, warships, etc.), economy, history and geography into this novel. Actually I learned more about stock market, mutual funds and other monetary stuffs from this fiction novel compared to my modest knowledge in money markets.

Should this book is placed into the non-fiction section, I doubt it will make a significant difference. Most of the materials presented in this novel is very convincing, it's hard to differentiate between facts and fiction. The authors had some weaknesses in this writing though. Some pronounced names in Chinese and Japanese are incorrect. But those are small issues.

The plot went around the Red Chinese attacking it Vietnamese neighbor. The story evolves around this issue. Crichton, Grisham, Clancy and Dale Brown's fans take note. Future World War 3 scheme may have similarities with this plot.

For a fiction novel, this book is quite "heavy". Thus, it is not your regular summer reading at the beach. It is much more than that. I would have preferred this novel be written in a lighter fashion.

Anyway, a four-star read for this fiction (or should I say, non-fiction?) book...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thought provoking, disturbing but accurate potrayal of WW3, March 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dragon Strike: The Millennium War (Paperback)

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.