Chinese Missiles on the Moon in R.H. Johnson's 13th Thriller
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., March 13, 2020 (Newswire.com) - R.H. Johnson’s books almost always read like front-page news, but his 13th novel, The China Mandate, carries the effort to a frightening new level, according to Hampton, Westbrook Publishing, the book's distributor. The year is 2020, and China is fast equipping its fully functional moonbase with nuclear missiles that will target a dozen U.S. cities.
“There’s nothing fictional about China’s technology ambitions,” Johnson says. “Their plan is to lead the way in space colonization, in quantum computing, and in artificial intelligence. All three of those efforts have alarming military potential that few Americans recognize, and I hope my latest novel opens some eyes.”
The China Mandate features a black-ops organization whose star performer, ex-Navy SEAL Travis Delta, tackles assignments that the U.S. government is prohibited by law from handling on its own. Top officials in Washington don’t especially care how Delta gets the job done as long as his work can’t be traced to the White House.
“Plausible deniability has always been one of the most powerful tools available to the world’s leaders,” Johnson notes, “and it’s used as much today as it was 50 or 60 years ago during the Cold War.”
The action in Johnson’s latest novel opens on a manned American spacecraft as it approaches the moon but cuts quickly to the Amazon rainforest, where ISIS terrorists are prepping for a sarin attack on D.C. With a wink and a nod from the director of national intelligence and the CIA director, agent Delta is on his way to Switzerland, Turkey, Nepal, South Korea, and China to eliminate an existential threat to the United States.
It’s hardly surprising that Travis Delta, like several other Johnson characters, is a martial arts expert. Johnson himself holds a ninth-degree black belt in Taekwondo, is a two-time U.S. national champion, and in 2017 was named to the Taekwondo Times Magazine Hall of Fame.
The China Mandate is a follow-up to The Jericho Option, the 2019 novel in which Johnson took a hard look at the unstoppable threat represented by weaponized toy drones. In earlier books, he examined a variety of other hot current-events issues, including human trafficking, the assassinations of Russian dissidents, and a high-level spy operating inside the White House.
A former Air Force officer and strategy consultant, Johnson lives and writes in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. His books are available exclusively through Amazon.
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Source: Hampton, Westbrook Publishing