What a lousy action thriller! Such a twisted perspective on Hong Kong and China, its people and communism. In Hong Kong, after the turnover from British rule to China, an American billionaire consul organizes uprising against Chinese governor.
In the process, wife of Jake Grafton, an American Navy general, is kidnapped and the tough-guy Grafton takes justice in his own hands, kills the bad guys, saves his wife and helps the billionaire-consul, who is his Vietnam war buddy, to overthrow the commies in Hong Kong and spread the revolution to China. Coonts shows absolute disregard for the real political and social situation in present-day Hong Kong. To make matters worse, he throws in the mix six fighting robots which overwhelm Chinese People's Liberation Army.A novel like Hong Kong couldn't have been written after 9/11, when American feling of self-importance was badly shaken. As it is, I'm terribly sorry I wasted few hours of my life on this book. I simply had to see how unbelievably ridiculous it can be.
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