Tujuh
(Bill Yenne, Berkley Ltd.: 2007)
This is another interesting book I picked up last year. The cover shows 3 US combat helicopters over San Francisco's Golden Gates. Here's the description:The war on terror is heating up.
The fanatical new Sultan of Brunei decides to make his presence felt on an international scale-with a nightmarish biological attack on San Francisco. Now it's time for Raptor Force to extinguish the Holy Fire...with the Sultan's blood.
Again interesting, albeit farfethced. The scenario we find here is that Brunei has successfully managed to inject lethal poison into San Fran's water supply and people there are slowly dying. Why we did that? Money. One interesting bit is that the evil Sultan wanted to reclaim Sarawak back as part of Brunei. Territory is certainly a touchy subject when it comes to our region, and it can only be explored in fiction I suppose.
Bill Yenne, 59, has authored more than 70 books. Not suprisingly he comes from San Franscisco. Holy Fire is the 2nd book of the Raptor Force series which include Raptor Force(2006) and Corksrew (2007), all published by Berkley. One of his more notable books would be A Damned Fine War (2004) which I had a chance to read back in Brunei.
Next post: Green Days in Brunei (Bruce Sterling, Ace Books: 1989)
posted by Zed Peace
on 14 March 2008
1 Comments:
The book, Holy Fire,is just a sheer fiction coming from sheer ignorance from the author and purely entertainment to others. The writer just could not find any other better character that he thought could be worst portrayed!!! Brunei just appeared in his monitor after lots of googling and punching his keyboard. You are right, the story is so far-fetched that best described as coming from a man who're high on acid. The writer is no different with one of those ugly americans portrayed in the cheap pakistanis or iranian movies.
One story worth writing, if we could suggest to him is about Abraham Lincoln who was thought by a schoolboy in a remote part of Borneo as one of our Moslem's prophets who was sent by God to govern America for the americanbut killed by an american jihadist.., well.. it will just become a pure entertainment to us and sheer ignorance to the american!!!
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