Review: US Sort Of Wins Again
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
This is third in the  series about the efforts of the Chinese and its South and Central American allies to take over the US for its oil and food production in a near future where global cooling has destroyed much of the world's agricultural lands.  Heppner is a good writer and most of his characters are quite human, although generally so flawed as to be unsympathetic.  This book is better than the earlier ones as he doesn't repeat things unnecessarily from chapter to chapter.  It is a gritty portrayal of combat, and a warning about what can happen when being "unAmerican" can be so broadly defined that it creates a police state and far too many people are turned into concentration camp victims and then cannon fodder.  This state of affairs makes for irony, because the Chinese state is vividly portrayed as a terrible place, yet the Americans do a lot of bad things in the name of democracy - I'm not sure if Heppner meant that to be the case or if it just turned out that way, but anyway the story is well worth reading.