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North Korea has one of the world’s largest standing armies, capable of unleashing a massive arsenal of chemical and nuclear weapons. With an unstable government, under absolute dictator Kim Jong-un, North Korea more closely resembles an organized crime ring than a real nation-state. Millions live on the edge of starvation while Pyongyang’s ruthless generals, crooked bureaucrats, and vicious secret police wage a covert war against each other to expand their rival fiefdoms. RED PHOENIX BURNING explores the implosion of this corrupt regime – a coup that triggers a bloody civil war among the North’s brutal factions. The world is dragged into a violent and rapidly widening confrontation amid North Korea’s shattered ruins, bringing it to the edge of an all-out war that could engulf the entire civilized world. Fans of the original RED PHOENIX will be delighted to see favorite characters like Colonel Kevin Little, Brigadier General Tony Christopher, and Colonel Rhee Han-Gil returning to battle, older and wiser, alongside a new cast of heroes and villains. RED PHOENIX BURNING will also offer readers a deeper look behind today’s headlines of turmoil and uncertainty—a look made all the more profound by the in-depth knowledge of war, military technology, and geopolitics brought to bear by Larry Bond and his co-author Chris Carlson.

Red Phoenix Burning Larry Bond Chris Carlson 9781519635389 Books

Let’s try something different; a ranking of the book based on content rather than on Amazon’s Kindle failures. This is the second book in a series on conflict breaking out in Korea. The original book, Red Phoenix, was written in the waning days of the Cold War and described the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. In the new book, we revisit a slightly altered Korean history (due to events in the original book) but one in which Kim Jung Un is still the key power figure.

The book leads off with North Korean units moving north, away from the DMZ. This counterintuitive development signals the beginning stages of an internal conflict in North Korea, in which an assassination attempt is made on Kim Jung Un by disgruntled elements within the North Korean military structure. The ensuing struggle for control devolves into several factions, and the internal conflict threatens to cause chaos as it is unclear which faction(s) have control of missiles, nuclear and chemical warheads. The US, China, and Russia are all concerned that the conflict could spill over and the missile borne WMDs used against nearby countries. Tensions escalate as the search for nuclear warheads fails, and nerve gas is deployed by one of the warring factions. I don’t want to spoil the surprises in the story for readers, but this is one of the better technothrillers you will read.

Larry has as a coauthor Chris Carlson, an extremely knowledgeable former naval officer with deep expertise. The two of them make a powerful writing team. As with all Larry Bond novels, the actions switches to several story lines and main characters. This gives the reader a multi-faceted view of the story, in addition to developing character interest as we follow the various players and their stories. Some of the characters introduced in the original Red Phoenix have return roles in more senior positions, and several new characters are introduced (including one minor one who seemed very familiar, at least to me). If you like an action packed and gripping military book with political elements of the real world, don’t miss out on this one!

Product details Paperback 510 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 16, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 1519635389

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Red Phoenix Burning Larry Bond Chris Carlson 9781519635389 Books Reviews

"RED PHOENIX BURNING" by Larry Bond

A few of the events and plot elements stretch credulity a bit, but overall, this is an outstanding sequel to the original "Red Phoenix," not to mention eerily timely, given the state of current events. Nice to see the return of familiar characters like now-COL Kevin Little, now-Col. Rhee of the ROK Special Forces, and now-Brig. Gen. Tony "Saint" Christopher, USAF.

If only the DPRK's vile, despicable communist regime were to suffer the well-deserved fate in real life that it does in this novel....
RANDOM STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS (and noteworthy passages)

"He'd make a lousy rancher. You had to like cows and horses to be a good rancher. And he hated cows. And horses. Especially horses." Ouch!

"The striped-pants folks in the US and Korean state departments"

"It was usually the predator you didn't see who pulled you down."

COL Kevin Little now carrying an M9 Beretta and M4A1 as opposed to the M1911 and M16A2 (A1?) he would've been carrying as a brand-new 2LT in the original "Red Phoenix" 28 years ago.....

"Dowa juseyo" = "Please help me."

"Where was the exhilaration, the joy, the sheer fun you experienced when you climbed into a high-performance aircraft and roared skyward? By comparison, a low, klutzy, unfeeling UAV, with a limited
field of view, was a very poor substitute."

Wow, 16 August timeline, what a coinkydink!

--p. 44 "Leak investigations were always hell." Again, what a coinkydink!

--p. 64 "There were rumors he'd make general soon, but he was actually happier as a colonel. He'd seen too many energetic leaders promoted and tied to a desk, turning into sedentary lumps with hands." Haha, good one.

--p. 79 Type 66, NK copy of the Makarov pistol--also a 9x18mm, I presume?

--p. 104 Vive Le Throat Punch!!!

Eh, 9x18mm rounds ain't powerful enough to explode a human skull except with contact shots, but hell, why nitpick?

--pp. 105-106 SPOILER ALERT Hot damn, the son of Major Sik (DPRK SF Commando) from Book #1! But why would one of his superiors show him the secret file on his dad without need-to-know basis??

--p. 114 "Digger" Graves, haha.

--p. 116 "Seonsaengnim?" Same as "san/sama" in Japanese? Ditto for "yang?" "Dongji?"

--p. 122 Aw jeez, another misguided Christian pacifist!

--p. 127 "It was like D-Day and Christmas at once."

--p. 139 "'But as long as the U.S. doesn't go north of the thirty-eighth parallel, China can't justify her own intervention."

--p. 140 "...and Pyongyang could join Beirut, Karbala, and Sarajevo in popular memory as urban battlefields."

--p. 143 "Only....women of any age, could be considered true civilians." Sounds awfully complacent; doesn't the KPA allow female soldiers within its ranks?

--p. 147 "ajumma" reserved for mothers and "mature" women; used with younger women, gets your slapped. Haha!

--p. 160 "Soldiers he could trust--politicians, not so much." Ain't THAT an enduring truth!!

--p. 162 "ssi?"

--p. 172 Russian government officials still using "comrade" this many years after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

--p. 209 K5 pistol and K7 rifle? Made by Daewoo?

--p. 211 Saluting in a combat zone when there are still unaccounted-for hostiles out there?

--p. 216 "'gese-kida?'"

--p. 217 "'shipcenchi?'"

--p. 219 "dicker" AKA haggle?

--p. 244 Soju-class missile boats? Just like the infamous alcoholic beverage?

--p. 246 ROK Navy using nautical miles instead of kilometres?

--p. 264 "oppa" = big brother/generalised term of endearment

--p. 269 "Federal agencies had piled onto his operation like he was giving away toasters" Haha

--p. 274 "dongmu" = Comrade

--p. 279 "Snipers were for sissies." Oh snap, haha!

--p. 303 "halmeoni" = grandmother

Generalised question So, when Col. Rhee is addressing his ROK subordinates in COL Kevin Little's presence, is he doing so in English or Korean? The author is unclear on this.

--p. 335 Haha, a self-deprecating "Ugly American" reference!

--p. 336 Ooh, and a de-Baathification reference, ouch!!

--p. 347 "nappeun nom?"

--p. 360 Ugh, shit, Flankers.

--p. 380 USS Gabrielle Giffords, meh.

--p. 381 "Any similarity to science fiction starships probably came from similar design goals. Probably." As Spock would say, "Fascinating."

--p. 389 the ship's own Skipper not cleared for the signals intercept van??? WTF, over!?

--p. 394 Shit, Guam, how timely. 🇬🇺

--pp. 419-420 "kut = Korean cleansing ceremony

--p. 428 "'It's best not to hunt duck hunters with ducks.'"

--p. 433 Typo; should be Kunsan, not "Kusan" [sic].

--p. 438 The 1st Shirt himself doing the hands-on tinkering on a plane?? Highly irregular, unless the unit is that desperate for manpower.

--p. 442 Ginger gum an anti-motion sickness tool?

--p. 444 Air Battle Manager reference!

--p. 456 "'Bogey'".....or HOSTILE??
I really enjoyed the original "Red Phoenix" when it first came out, so I was happy to read this sequel. Unfortunately, I found it to be disappointing. While Larry Bond's prose has improved over the decades, in this novel we find one-dimensional characterizations and a fairly predictable storyline. Even the geopolitical strategy, which is one of Larry Bond's strengths in most of his novels, was predictable and probably too good to be true in this story.

Probably the least good thing about this novel was Bond's decision to try to keep this "Red Phoenix Burning" storyline as an actual sequel to "Red Phoenix." Red Phoenix the original of course was about a fictional Second Korean War. As we all know, no such war occurred, at least not yet. I think that this new one would have been a better novel if it simply had ignored the first "Red Phoenix" and presented a story about the North Korean collapse without reference to the fictional events in the first novel. Well, that's my opinion and I can see why Bond wanted to preserve the characters and some of the storyline of the first Red Phoenix novel. But really, the characterizations in this novel are not a significant part of the story, and I think that this trade-off by Bond was not the best approach.

I wanted to love this novel but I only liked it. Larry Bond fans won't want to miss it regardless. RJB.
Let’s try something different; a ranking of the book based on content rather than on ’s failures. This is the second book in a series on conflict breaking out in Korea. The original book, Red Phoenix, was written in the waning days of the Cold War and described the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. In the new book, we revisit a slightly altered Korean history (due to events in the original book) but one in which Kim Jung Un is still the key power figure.

The book leads off with North Korean units moving north, away from the DMZ. This counterintuitive development signals the beginning stages of an internal conflict in North Korea, in which an assassination attempt is made on Kim Jung Un by disgruntled elements within the North Korean military structure. The ensuing struggle for control devolves into several factions, and the internal conflict threatens to cause chaos as it is unclear which faction(s) have control of missiles, nuclear and chemical warheads. The US, China, and Russia are all concerned that the conflict could spill over and the missile borne WMDs used against nearby countries. Tensions escalate as the search for nuclear warheads fails, and nerve gas is deployed by one of the warring factions. I don’t want to spoil the surprises in the story for readers, but this is one of the better technothrillers you will read.

Larry has as a coauthor Chris Carlson, an extremely knowledgeable former naval officer with deep expertise. The two of them make a powerful writing team. As with all Larry Bond novels, the actions switches to several story lines and main characters. This gives the reader a multi-faceted view of the story, in addition to developing character interest as we follow the various players and their stories. Some of the characters introduced in the original Red Phoenix have return roles in more senior positions, and several new characters are introduced (including one minor one who seemed very familiar, at least to me). If you like an action packed and gripping military book with political elements of the real world, don’t miss out on this one!