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> Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted--the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they uncover the sinister forces advancing America's opioid epidemic.
Preorder it now: https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Never-Dies-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1683690397
If you'd like the extended version of this story, read the novel 2034. It's a fictional work about the exact scenario, written by retired Admiral James Stavridis (3-Star general, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, etc), so he has a bit of context.
This is from the preface of one of those "novels". I kid you not.
America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent past undertakes one last mission to infiltrate and take out his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of North America.
Here is a link to the book on Amazon. It's something like $10 on Kindle. "Locked On" is another good one from Clancy, and on of his last books written. Locked On takes place after R6 has pretty much been disbanded and it's original operators have retired.
That's true. I was glib.
What I'd actually want to see is an experienced prosecutor like Harris appointed to AG with her number 1 responsibility being the investigation into corruption if the Trump administration
Not Biden personally running down leads or anything
You mean the memes about the Obama-Biden bromance?
You get that those were not making fun of Biden but celebrating the bromance right?
Also, if you really want to be entertained by the Biden Obama friendship someone also wrote crime novels about them.
You're welcome.
16 year old male?
If he can start it, go down the Palahniuk rabbithole, and go with RANT. It's a hard book to start, but I guarantee, if he gets through 30 or so pages he will be hooked and it will start his journey.
This is the same Author that did the book Fight Club (highly recommended, but I think Rant is better for a 16 year old).
Tom Clancy already predicted in 1987's Red Storm Rising that the next major conventional war in Europe would be very much WW1 like
At least the Soviet Army in that book was competent, and the technology gap has widened even more since then
It's a nuclear state. They will fire nukes at all major US cities if we attack them. Check out this book co-written by a Navy admiral. It depicts a war between China and the US. https://www.amazon.com/2034-Novel-Next-World-War/dp/1984881256
If you want to see a 'Republican Dad' novel that could be turned into either 'Republican Dad blockbuster action movie' or 'TV miniseries' with Chris Pratt as the star, check out right-wing blowhard Ben Shapiro's attempt at becoming the new Tom Clancy, 'True Allegiance'. It's like 'The Room' or 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' of novels. A link to its Amazon page is below and be sure to use the 'Look Inside' feature to get a sampling of Shapiro's purple prose:
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
I guess calling someone smart or stupid is probably using too broad a brush.
He’s a functional propagandist, and can gish gallop like a motherfucker, I don’t think that necessarily makes him smart. He’s definitely not self-aware. Half the shit he says doesn’t even make sense.
You should read just a small chunk of any book he’s written. It might just change your perspective on his mental capacity. I recommend True Allegiance for a good laugh.
Jenny Nicholson did a long form review/critique of Trigger Warning by William Johnstone, which is along the same lines.
Future conflicts are ever only vaguely like past conflicts. Given the ongoing cyber cold war the US is currently engaged in with China (and Russia), expect forces to strive to incapacitate communications and electronics. Both are striving to militarize space, to knock out satellites. Both will deploy EMPs to disrupt the battlefield. If they’re cleaver enough, they’ll strive to take command and control of the enemy’s electronics. Expect the war to go along the lines of
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984881256/
As a result of the speed of the conflict, there won’t be a need to produce war machines - the conflict will be over almost as soon as it began.
At present, the US is positioned to lose the next great global conflict because of its hubris (the mindset that led the US to get its chain yanked in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq remains - our military isn’t as capable as we think) and it’s focus on the wrong instruments of war (e.g., recent naval war games showed how easy it is for submarines to remove surface ships from the battlefield).
This one. It’s sort of a right-wing male fantasy fulfillment novel. It’s not funny because of the political implications though, it’s just written very poorly. Typos aside, it reads like a 12-year-old’s hero fantasy. Silly stuff.
Have you read "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk? One of my favourite books. Based on your post, I think you'd get a kick out of it :)
Don't read anything about it, take it on the blind word of an Internet stranger :D
https://www.amazon.ca/Rant-Oral-Biography-Buster-Casey/dp/0307275833
Iceland may not provide soldiers, but it's a critical piece of land that can shut down Russian fleet's (especially subs) access to the Atlantic.
The Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, written in 1986, depicts a fictional NATO-Warsaw Pact conventional war and features Iceland as an important battleground
That preview seemed somehow to hit a ton of cliches, especially with the characters. A lot of low reviews too that resonate with me here.
We’re getting out asses handed to us when it comes to cyber issues. This issue alone could bring the nation to heal.
Check out https://www.amazon.com/2034-Novel-Next-World-War/dp/1984881256/ref=nodl_
Reading the reviews on Amazon suggest it is.
In fact reading the reviews for it on Amazon is definitely more enjoyable than actually reading the book, if the reviews are to be be believed.
And I have no reason to doubt them ;)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1682610772/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_7XFWQ1G94HCA0WRGV8BC
I just saw a novel that will come out soon A snipet of it is in latest Wired magazine.
Not sure how good but I will read the snipet first.
https://www.amazon.com/2034-Novel-Next-World-War/dp/1984881256/
You've made multiple baseless claims and have been spouting off unsubstantiated bullshit since Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and this is what gives you a laugh, man? You're just so clever, aren't you? Can you not try to be less... clever?
Regardless, whatever you write about (and, no, I don't care) is probably similar in nature to conservative, machismo jack-off porn like Trigger Warning.
Holy hell it is just straight up conservative fan fiction. The description on Amazon is.
>America is coming apart. An illegal immigration crisis has broken out along America's Southern border—there are race riots in Detroit—a fiery female rancher-turned-militia leader has vowed revenge on the president for his arrogant policies—and the world's most notorious terrorist is planning a massive attack that could destroy the United States as we know it. Meanwhile the President is too consumed by legacy-seeking to see our country’s deep peril.
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>Brett Hawthorne is the youngest general in the United States Army—and he’s stuck, alone, behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. He’s the last lost soldier of a failed war, fighting to stay alive and make it back home—but will he be able to stop the collapse of America in time?
I have a book recommendation for them.
I'm reading the reviews:
Holy shit...
> Few novels (or any type of media, for that matter) resonate so very much with a specific culture or a certain time in history as does Ross's book.
> Unintended Consequences mostly follows the life of a man named Henry Bowman from the time of his birth until his life's defining moment, some forty years later.
> Though the setting of this book reaches back more than a century and ends in the early to mid nineties, it captures what America is facing right now; an overbearing federal government doing all it can to crush liberty and stifle the free exercise thereof.
> This novel is, more than anything, about hope. Ross and his hero Bowman show that the most powerful force in this world is a free man unwilling to compromise his self or his ideals and that the change this man and men like him can have on the world is worthy of awe.
> There isn't much I can say to persuade you, some stranger roaming the wilds of the internet, to make you stop here and purchase this book, to give it the chance it deserves, aside form that this book has within its pages the means to instill in those who read it a great sense of conviction, and purpose, and hope.
> America can shine again across the world when each man, a sovereign citizen, takes up the banner of freedom and refuses to go quietly into the night.
> This book is a learning experience, a tool, a manual, a manifesto, and a wonderful story seamlessly blended into one span of pages.
> Read this novel. Give it a chance. I promise it will speak to you.
I would describe a book like that as a technothriller rather than sci-fi / military fiction, although there's obvious overlap. Ghost Fleet, maybe?
> Rainbow Six novel
https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Six-John-Clark-Novel/dp/0425170349
The game is called Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, inspired by the novel released in the 90s, though they don't share characters or settings.
Hard to get a hold of a hard copy of the book, but could probably find an electronic version online somewhere. It is lengthy, but worth it. I consider it the Atlas Shrugged of gun rights.
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
True Alliegiance - Ben Shapiro
It's a look into Ben's mind via his "fiction" which is really just a thinly veiled alternate imagining of history and the current political climate.
This article is pure gold
And the columnist's novels look like great reads as well. Looks like I will be checking it out
The Amazon paperback explicitly lists it as a Jack Ryan book, too. No. Not unless there's been a rewrite where Ryan makes a cameo.