Empire Rising: A Novel
Written by Rick Campbell
Narrated by Jeff Gurner
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About this audiobook
Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan in Rick Campbell's thrilling Empire Rising. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet.
After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan and drawing the Pacific Fleet in to its defense. With a faster, larger fleet with more capable long range missiles, China is able to surprise and quickly overwhelm the American fast attack fleet, all but wiping out the U.S. forces on deployment. Then China turns to its real objective - invasion and expansion across Asia, starting with the four main Islands of Japan.
While the Atlantic Fleet surges westward to defend its allies and respond to the destruction of their counterparts, it falls to an unlikely alliance of three people to stop this incursion and prevent World War III. National Security Advisor Christine O'Connor has critical information, but she's trapped in Beijing; Captain Murray Wilson, C.O. of the submarine USS Georgia must somehow infiltrate the Chinese submarine blockade; and Navy SEAL Jake Harrison must lead a strike team into the most hostile of territories with only hours to implement the most daring plan ever.
Rick Campbell
Rick Campbell, a retired Navy Commander, spent more than twenty years on multiple submarine tours. On his last tour, he was one of the two men whose permission was required to launch the submarine's nuclear warhead-tipped missiles. Campbell is the author of The Trident Deception, Empire Rising and Ice Station Nautilus, and lives with his family in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
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Reviews for Empire Rising
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The United States enters into an accord with its allies to regulate the sharing of oil and gas resources that will greatly disadvantage China. Christine O’Connor, the president’s natural security advisor, argues against signing the accord. She notes that Japan’s entry into World War II was triggered by a similar accord that deprived Japan of the natural resources critical its economic development. She cautions that the accord will force China to engage in military action to obtain the oil and gas critical to its economy. The President’s Chief of Staff and Senior Military Aide assure the President that the United States will easily defeat China if it takes that approach. Boy were they wrong. China has long prepared for war with the Unites States. It created a covert submarine force the size of its known force and updated and expanded its anti-aircraft and anti-ship missile batteries far beyond that which is necessary to destroy the U. S. Pacific fleet and associated aircraft. Even more deadly is China’s development and covert deployment of a computer virus that renders the U. S. military satellites, command and communication network, and electronically guided torpedoes useless. In a couple of days China destroys most of the surface ships, submarines, and aircraft of the U. S. Pacific Fleet.Having created a plausible scenario, Campbell provides a gripping account of the ensuing war. Shifting back and forth between China and the United States, Campbell provides a detailed, step-by-step account of the ensuing political and overt and covert military action. Realistic depictions of the battles occurring in the air, on the sea, and under the sea describe the desperate — mostly unsuccessful — efforts of the American military to avoid annihilation. The United States quickly finds itself in such a hopeless position that readers will wonder if it is possible to imagine a plausible scenario that will allow the U. S. to emerge triumphant. As it turns out, it’s not particularly plausible, but this is fiction and implausibility foes not interfere with the story.One tedious misstep is Campbell’s introduction of a past romance between O’Connor and Lieutenant Jake Harrison, her boyfriend of 25 years ago. This subplot feels contrived and it is not altogether clear why Campbell thought it would be interesting. He continues this relationship in the next two books in this series but with less and less vigor and it would be nice if he were to abandon it altogether.I began this series with books three (“Ice Station Nautilus”; Rating 7) and four (“Blackmail”; Rating 8) , then looped back to read the first two. I assigned a rating of 9 to the first book in this series, “The Trident Deception,” and am giving this book a nine also. I find myself wondering if the series has slipped slightly or my appreciation of the series has deepened as I have become more familiar with the characters and the world created by Campbell. Perhaps I’ll reread books three and four again to satisfy my curiosity.