Two Peasants and a President edition by Frederick Aldrich Literature Fiction eBooks
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When China claims the entire South China Sea and all the islands as its sovereign territory, more than 1.4 million square miles of ocean become a part of China, including waters more than 1200 miles from the Chinese coast. For centuries these waters have belonged to the seven nations bordering them along with billions of barrels of undersea oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. When China uses its navy to enforce these claims, sinking an aged Philippine warship that had once been an American WWII destroyer, the world finds itself on the brink of war.
A young American couple and a old Chinese woman from whom the government has taken everything become pawns in China’s cynical ploy. But though the Chinese woman is broken, she is not bowed. She and the young Americans, both children of former US Navy Seals, show China that the human spirit is more powerful than any warship.
Two Peasants and a President edition by Frederick Aldrich Literature Fiction eBooks
The plot was interesting and well thought out. The author managed all of the subplots well, and tied it all up in the end with skill, without seeming rushed or forced. The story was realistic enough that occasionally I would hear something on the news and immediately think of events in the book.The downside to the book, and the reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 4, was that it needed both proofreading and editing. The mechanical errors, such as misplaced quotation marks, were frequent enough to be annoying, all the more so because they could have been easily corrected. About halfway through the book, the author started just telling the story instead of having the plot unfold through the actions and conversations of the characters. It got better toward the end of the book, but it's too bad that there wasn't a good editor to help smooth out the rough spots.
Overall, I would recommend the book. It was timely, well-researched, and kept me interested enough to want to know what was going to happen next.
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Two Peasants and a President edition by Frederick Aldrich Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book is VERY thinly veiled criticism of the current presidential administration. It also drags on at times, but overall it is a pretty good read. If you can keep an open mind, and think of the book more as something that could happen during the current political environment in the world it is a decent book.
This book starts with wonderful intrigue with kidnapping of a couple on honeymoon. It doesn't go back to this for many chapters and introduces so many characters and sub-plots that I had lost interest in where it all leads. The writing is good, but the story is muddled in my view. The author's right wing leanings are so evident that you know his bias. I can live with that if the story can be followed and is compelling. This one did not do that for me. I would not recommend it.
Fast and exciting and read. The action seems all too real, especially the political hominid of our government leaders. Rousing good book
A rollicking, riveting thriller. It kept me completely engrossed all night with its great action, and military, political, and foreign policy crises that could have been ripped from today's headlines!
This is an okay read. It fits into the genre of war and international espionage and doesn't have any glaring errors that I detected. You can pick it up, read some, put it down and pick it up again without feeling like you have to go back to refresh your memory. Recommended light reading.
A friend had recommended this book when I happened to in a conversation about another title, so I noted the title and bought it here a few days later. The cover was intriguing, but it was forgotten in light of the weather reports as Hurricane Sandy was brewing in the Atlantic. The "superstorm" hit New York City and my power went out. But my was still operational, and there was that fascinating book cover again, so I started reading...
Frederick Aldrich's new novel Two Peasants and a President gets off to a fast start. A young American newlywed couple have received the wedding gift of their dreams from her parents two tickets to Hong Kong and a voucher for a honeymoon cruise in Hong Kong harbor and on into the South China Sea. As they embark, leaving the bright lights of Hong Kong behind them, something happens that caused this reader to be riveted, and I hoped that my book-light would hold up as the hurricane winds were blowing outside.
We shift to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and there's an elderly naval vessel wearing the flag of the small Philippine Navy, steaming leisurely through the water. This 300-foot frigate had it's beginnings in 1943 with the US Navy as the destroyer USS Atherton. After WW-II it had been transferred to the Japan Self Defense Forces, then later in the late '70s to the Philippine Navy. As it was cruising slowly on patrol in the South China Sea, the captain received an ominous and very arrogant message
"Philippine warship; you are entering waters of the People's Republic of China. You are instructed to come about 180 degrees and withdraw. Do you copy?"
The story really escalates from this point... and this is just the beginning of author Aldrich's book, and it's one that spans continents and soon the United States is facing a crisis that goes beyond diplomacy. As the American president and the Chinese leadership face each other down, the entire world looks like it's on the brink of war.
If this sounds like an excellent, well thought out thriller, that's how it hit me as I read each chapter, hoping that my book-light and my would hold out as I heard Sandy's winds blowing outside. But as I read on into the night, I began to to see cracks in the surface. What was seemingly an excellent political thriller was slowly turning into right-wing novel with a strong anti-China slant, and one where in the U.S., it was the Conservatives who were the heroes, and a fictional Liberal American president had a "grand dream of an all-powerful federal government." One began to wonder who was the real fictional villain the megalomaniac Chinese leader or the Liberal American president.
Political slants are not uncommon in novels, but at times it appeared that the author was employing his novel as a bully pulpit for his own political beliefs instead of keeping on track with what is an excellent and fast paced novel. I won't go so far as to call it xenophobic, as some of the heroes in this tale are Chinese. But for this politically moderate reader, the portrayal of the American Liberals as evil bureaucrats took away from from this book to the point of distraction.
Get past the borderline rants here in author Aldrich's Two Peasants and a President and you'll find an excellent and well crafted thriller that's sure to capture your imagination. For this reader, it proved to keep my mind off of the noise from the hurricane as Sandy moved past, and why I can call it a solid 4-star novel.
11/10/2012
Excellent in many ways, but worst editing I've ever seen in a published book. Aside from typical punctuation errors, the book has accidental malaprops, random words, grammatical errors, etc. It's like the author never read it after writing it. Too bad! Otherwise, it has a great plot and is a well-researched book.
The plot was interesting and well thought out. The author managed all of the subplots well, and tied it all up in the end with skill, without seeming rushed or forced. The story was realistic enough that occasionally I would hear something on the news and immediately think of events in the book.
The downside to the book, and the reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 4, was that it needed both proofreading and editing. The mechanical errors, such as misplaced quotation marks, were frequent enough to be annoying, all the more so because they could have been easily corrected. About halfway through the book, the author started just telling the story instead of having the plot unfold through the actions and conversations of the characters. It got better toward the end of the book, but it's too bad that there wasn't a good editor to help smooth out the rough spots.
Overall, I would recommend the book. It was timely, well-researched, and kept me interested enough to want to know what was going to happen next.
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