Book Review: Hostile Intent, by Michael Walsh

Oct 26, 2011 23:56

An NSA spy thriller written by the editors of National Review who thought Jack Bauer is a pussy.


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tealterror0 October 27 2011, 05:19:03 UTC
(I accidentally posted anonymously before, sorry; I'll do my best to reproduce the comment here)

...Wow. That sounds like one of the most concentrated levels of fail in a book to ever exist. My "favorite" parts were the black anti-American anti-white social studies teacher, the President being John Edwards (though I'm disappointed he apparently never cheated on his cancer-stricken wife), and the main character being eight years old when he was born.

I would like George Soros being the main villain more, except that since every crazy right-winger (as well as the LaRouchians, who seem to have no coherent political ideology except insanity) has an unnatural obsession with him, I'd be more surprised if he wasn't.

But now I want to write a left-wing technothriller. Maybe the main character can be a rogue CIA agent--or even better, an Internal Affairs police officer--who kills evil CEOs and abortion clinic bombers while promoting unionization, affirmative action, and immigration.

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shinygobonkers October 27 2011, 05:36:49 UTC
I thoroughly approve of your left-wing technothriller idea! I like the idea of a rogue IRS agent myself...

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tealterror0 October 27 2011, 05:50:04 UTC
Ooh, that works! Like, the novel can start when he--or better, she--discovers defense contractors are withholding billions of dollars in taxes.

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shinygobonkers October 27 2011, 06:21:05 UTC
yes!!
...and because she has a super savant skill of calculating ANY number or mathematical problem of any kind (developed at the age of six), advanced training in [insert martial/weapons skill of choice] AND the authorization to go after tax-dodgers by ANY means necessary...

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tealterror0 October 27 2011, 06:35:22 UTC
There's no emoticon appropriate for expressing how amused I am right now.

I am seriously getting closer and closer to writing this for my NaNo novel instead of my planned fantasy one. Now all we need is extremely crude stereotypes of Southerners and people who live in small towns (I'm thinking massive and chronic incest) and I think we're set!

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shinygobonkers October 27 2011, 06:48:35 UTC
oh yes, MUCH incest and maybe excessive religiosity/lack of education just to really drive the point in?

also, who'd be the Soros-equivalent villain? a thinly fictionalized version of Cheney perhaps?

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tealterror0 October 27 2011, 06:55:50 UTC
Well, the Koch brothers are the most obvious Soros-analogue. Rupert Murdoch might work better. To really piss off conservatives though, it might be best to go after a pseudo-Ronald Reagan.

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