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FUCK.
Ok, it wasn't a great book. Ken Follett's characters are always either annoyingly perfect people with hearts of gold, or the scum of the earth. Everything that happened with the terrorists in Chad was awesome, but ultimately kind of irrelevant. It sort of felt like two separate books, tbh--one about terrorists in Chad, and one about China and America. I kind of wish the American president wasn't one of the pov characters--we had the pov of a random spy guy in China, and it would have been more fun to have the American equivalent in America. They'd both subtly pull the strings of their leaders, trying to avert war and failing. But, alas, we got the American President instead, and she... was super boring. She also seemed super dumb--why is she constantly asking how things work when she 100% should already know?
Overall, this book was super cliche and tropey.
But.
Fucking devastating.
This book made nuclear war seem completely plausible and that's fucking scary.
Ok, it wasn't a great book. Ken Follett's characters are always either annoyingly perfect people with hearts of gold, or the scum of the earth. Everything that happened with the terrorists in Chad was awesome, but ultimately kind of irrelevant. It sort of felt like two separate books, tbh--one about terrorists in Chad, and one about China and America. I kind of wish the American president wasn't one of the pov characters--we had the pov of a random spy guy in China, and it would have been more fun to have the American equivalent in America. They'd both subtly pull the strings of their leaders, trying to avert war and failing. But, alas, we got the American President instead, and she... was super boring. She also seemed super dumb--why is she constantly asking how things work when she 100% should already know?
Overall, this book was super cliche and tropey.
But.
Fucking devastating.
This book made nuclear war seem completely plausible and that's fucking scary.