Do You Know You Have an Enemy?Know Him... or face the consequences.
China suffers under the rule of a ruthless dictator. His pride and ambition have no limits. He leads unquestioned, unchallenged, and he is determined to bend the world to his will. Xi JinPing is a Communist Tyrant.
This is a satirical biography of Xi JinPing, the leader of the Communist Party in China. Xi's life is drawn like a carnival sketch. From Mao’s Great Leap to his Cultural Revolution, from reform to the Tiananmen massacre, from foreign capital to the pandemic, the events that shaped Xi’s rise are caricatured from the perspective of the elite political class, culminating in a prophetic resolution to the Taiwan conflict.
If you’ve ever wondered why the Chinese Communist Party behaves the way it does, then you’ve found the answer.
There’s truth in fiction.Read the reviews, then...
Standing before you, slightly bowed, but turned to one side, concealing something beneath a dark toned overcoat, is a man that doesn’t trust you. He fears you may act on the insane impulses he is sure you also must experience. Which one of you is on the verge of losing control?
For help, you’ve come to the wrong place. Count Fathom books are described as unapologetic and insensitive. He wants to shine a harsh light into the shadows, to uncover the monsters lurking there. Pull them out into the light and shake loose the fear.
Facing these monsters means grappling with their meaning, biting through the hide. These stories are not soup. Count Fathom writes a tale dense as steak. A patient reader is rewarded. Chew before you swallow.
Ethics not included. There are no heroes, only villains in varying shades of black. They are seen in the streets, in the park, on the corner, climbing the fence. Count Fathom sees the bad in people. Trust is built brick by brick. His first instinct is to protect himself.
Immoral and indelicate are not necessarily wrong. Sometimes they can be the contrast that exposes truth in relief. From the darkness of Count Fathom you can best see the light. There is truth is fiction.
First and foremost, what the author stated about the story comming from the ideas and imaginations of their mind is true as there are some parts of the story and world building that are eyebrow-raising due to how it tethers or questions your knowledge of what is fact. But readers must remember that it is fiction and that the settings borrow from a time where information is tricky to acquire due to censorship and other factors. With that, we can enter the book as a fictional, dystopian-like, historical fiction where the author derives the situation from a real standpoint.
Secondly, the author, if you are reading this review of mine, I love the approach that you did on how the story will be told. Simple yet effective on lushing the narrative forward. The names were a bit jarring and took time for me to get used to because I read this whenever I get freetime and would always gobackt o read the previous chapters to remind myself on previous contexts. The relationships that the characters have is on-point, especially with their conflict with others and themselves. Re-evaluating their character, their reason on either fighting for or against the tyrant, and even the conclusion is beautiful. And the Author Bio is just really setting it in on what the book is all about. A wake-up call for not just the characters in the novel but also to the readers who are either fighting or are complacent.
Lastly, a thank you to the author for allowing me a free access to this novel. It was a wonderful past time read that really engages me, even though it might be a short one. I look forward for more stories and I actually intend to order a paperback version, if there are any. Congratulations for the release of this book once again.