Blog
December 2, 2025 It turns out that reality mirrors fiction!
I started writing my first action thriller, The Conscripted Extremist, in late 2022 and published it in 2023. At the time I wrote it, I didn't expect reality to mirror fiction. But in 2025 it has.
The Conscripted Extremist turns on a scheme hatched within the U.S. government to eliminate Antifa. Sound familiar? In the book, believing that Antifa and other left wing extremists pose a greater threat to the country than right wing extremists, a secret government group seeks to plant someone in the extreme left in order to ferret out the leaders of Antifa and then eliminate them.
In my newest thriller, Attacking The Dragon, China's global expansion is considered a threat to other powers and terrorist attacks are waged to curtail it. These days, political and economic actions are taken against China such as taking control of Tik Tok, imposing (and then suspending) special port fees on Chinese shipping, discouraging other countries from doing business with China, increasing tariffs on Chinese goods, and limiting Chinese investments and acquisitions in the United States. Fortunately, not the same measures as in Attacking The Dragon but the same concerns and goals.
We’ll see whether my next books prove accurate.
I started writing my first action thriller, The Conscripted Extremist, in late 2022 and published it in 2023. At the time I wrote it, I didn't expect reality to mirror fiction. But in 2025 it has.
The Conscripted Extremist turns on a scheme hatched within the U.S. government to eliminate Antifa. Sound familiar? In the book, believing that Antifa and other left wing extremists pose a greater threat to the country than right wing extremists, a secret government group seeks to plant someone in the extreme left in order to ferret out the leaders of Antifa and then eliminate them.
In my newest thriller, Attacking The Dragon, China's global expansion is considered a threat to other powers and terrorist attacks are waged to curtail it. These days, political and economic actions are taken against China such as taking control of Tik Tok, imposing (and then suspending) special port fees on Chinese shipping, discouraging other countries from doing business with China, increasing tariffs on Chinese goods, and limiting Chinese investments and acquisitions in the United States. Fortunately, not the same measures as in Attacking The Dragon but the same concerns and goals.
We’ll see whether my next books prove accurate.
China Investment Group, November 20, 2025 |
|
I am pleased to share that yesterday I was a guest speaker at a meeting of the China Investment Group to talk about my new book, Attacking The Dragon. CIG is composed of many China experts. This was a fabulous opportunity to have the political forces described in Attacking The Dragon validated by experts in the field.
