Book Review – The Second Korean War by Ted Hallstead

  I was feeling a little guilty pushing back the normally scheduled technical blog by a couple of weeks, (which I promise will be worth the wait!) until I realized that is has been almost a year since I published my last review on 2 books The Devil Dragon Pilot, and Defector -Click Here To View-. 

  Let’s face it!  I read, I read a lot!  When I am not working, eating, or sleeping you will find me with my nose buried in the Kindle app on my iPad!  It is not often that I come across a book that is so captivating that no matter what I do I cannot put it down, or will stand out in my mind forever.  Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, (Which is the first book I read of his), Blindsight, and Godplayer by Robin Cook, and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien to name a few titles.

  The Second Korean War by Ted Hallstead is just such a book!  Like Larry Bonds Red Phoenix (Which coincidently follows the same general format and prose of Red Storm Rising). Takes place in present day Korea, Kim Jon Un has died in a plane crash and the new North Korean leader has a plan to reunite the Korean Peninsula by force and replacing their government and using a political/economic system similar to China’s one country two systems policies of Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions. 

  How can North Korea hope to succeed? By threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb under the heart of Seoul itself, and to keep the US Military from coming to their allies aid a nuclear device has also been smuggled into a large US city and will be detonated if the United States interferes. 

  The only fly in the ointment is that an honest and hard working Vladivostok police detective has stumbled onto the loose ends left by the arms dealer who sold North Korea an old and forgotten about man portable nuclear weapon (Suitcase bomb).  With the help of an FSB agent they track down the device in the United States.  Will they be in time?  Will the North Koreans be successful in detonating the device in Seoul? 

  The book was well written, and did not bog the reader down with technical details or drone on about military strategy, or political details like Clancy’s books tend to.  While the editing needs a bit of work as there are spelling and grammatical errors, the book is still very enjoyable.  I pulled an all nighter in a coffee shop unable to put the book down while I was supposed to be out practicing nighttime photography in Seoul!

  If you are looking for a good entertaining military thriller, based loosely around current events, I highly recommend picking up The Second Korean War.  When finished you may also want to read Red Phoenix by Larry Bond (Though somewhat dated, still remains a good read, and hypothesis of what a second war on the Korean peninsula would look like.

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