Stolen from Sean Eric Fagan

[james_davis_nicoll]

Guess the publisher! No googling!

Bailouts and ambitious plans for recovery have failed to rescue the United States’ crumbling economy. The president takes a desperate gamble and strikes a bargain with China to write off America’s debt. It seems a brilliant move, until the Supreme Court is destroyed by a cruise missile in a shocking attack and Manhattan is invaded. China has come to claim what’s theirs. With American captives executed daily in national broadcasts by the attackers, the government in disarray, and US military forces shattered into local militias, all seems lost. Deep in the heart of Texas the American spirit lives on. John David Drury, a young, untried, but highly qualified “four-star general” of a scrappy militia, along with Molly Spitz, a highly-ranked graduate of the Air Force Academy, prepares to lead a strike against New York City.

Comments

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

This isn't particularly more insane that Clancy's "And then Japanese fascist businessmen take over the government and use the JSDF to conquer a bunch of Pacific islands without any outcry from the Japanese public" novel.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I remember a Disco Era CBC radio thriller - stop laughing - where the amiable antagonist delivered a speech that went roughly "France ran Canada for many year and then the British and finally the Americans. We of Japan simply feel it's our turn."

[seawasp]

Something like that line was used somewhere in Cussler's Dirk Pitt novel "Dragon", IIRC.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Curious coincidence; the Cussler novel about the US trying to annex Canada by recovering a secret treaty, Night Probe, dealt with the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland. Today is the 100th anniversary of that sinking.

-- Steve knows it really is coincidence, but playing "6 degrees of random factoid" is fun!

[(Anonymous)]

That book was the third Dirk Pitt novel I read, and the one that made me give up on Cussler altogether. Never mind the utter nonsense of a 'secret treaty' for Britain to *sell* Canada to the US; it was the train robbery bit that I just couldn't swallow....it was as bad as anything by Dan Brown!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a premise for a sitcom, actually. I know a couple of writers who could possibly turn it into comedy gold with some solid research help. The right scripts, and it would become a Japanese-Canadian co-pro.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

And you can always sell a story about evil Americans plotting to destroy Canada up here.

(Trying to remember how the Americans in FASS 1986 introduced themselves. The final part was "and strip-mine Algonquin Park!" Always got a laugh)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Until we all learned about the "Ring of Fire" further north.

Not so much of a joke anymore, that idea.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the kind of thing Richard Rohmer would have written.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

My goodness, Rohmer's still alive. And writing, although nonfiction and a historical novel lately.