Generous Enemies
A speculative novel predicts the military role of China in a possible World War Three. In Simon Drake's novel Generous Enemies, the US has been knocked out of a future war, Indonesia has invaded half of Australia, and the mass global migration of refugees and the growth of regional warlords has created genuine chaos. Yet it is the military might of China, a new and untried modern superpower, that must restore order and bring peace to the Pacific.
Generous Enemies – Synopsis: China, Indonesia and Australia are at war in the South Pacific as 21st century catastrophes and conflicts grip the globe. Indonesia has invaded Australia yet faltered. Emerging from the chaos of Indonesian Occupied Australia are Warlords, thriving in anarchy, fighting for supremacy, trading natural resources for weapons, and creating rogue states. To counter the disorder, China, the only superpower at full strength, sets out to police the Pacific and restore peace. Major Katherine Krue is young, cunning and a veteran, infiltrating Occupied Australia and assassinating regional players. Her next target is another Warlord but of a different caliber: Colonel Peters, ex-Australian Army, out of control, once ordered to destroy a Warlord, has now become one. As the leader of a rogue state in an unfinished world war, bordering competing Warlords, Colonel Peters commands a militia army and imports weapons of mass destruction for geo-political leverage and devastation, proving that in a world of uncertainty, there can be security, but at a ghastly cost, and not without creating formidable enemies. Major Krue must stop him, or an invading Chinese Brigade will provoke him to retaliate with a nuclear strike, thus crushing hopes of peace and an end to regional conflict.
Generous Enemies was published in July, 2008, by Simon Drake.
Simon Drake has also written the ‘The Art of Office War’, ‘Love Data’, ‘10,000BC – The First Geniuses’ and ‘The Return of the Last Space Explorer’. Visit www.simondrake.com for more information.
