Seeds of Fire: China And The Story Behind The Attack On America

by Gordon Thomas

Argues that China offered weapons and other technology to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden as part of a strategy for becoming the leading enemy of the United States and a major military power with missiles targeted at North America.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, China

523 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Gordon Thomas (born 1933) is a Welsh author who has written more than fifty books.
Thomas was born in Wales, in a cemetery keeper's cottage where his grandmother lived. He had his first story published at nine years old in a Boy's Own Paper competition. With his father in the RAF, he traveled widely and was educated at the Cairo High School, the Maritz Brothers (in Port Elizabeth, South Africa) and, lastly, at Bedford Modern School. His first book, completed at the age of seventeen, is the story of a British spy in Russia during World War II, titled Descent Into Danger. He refused the offer of a job at a university in order to accompany a traveling fair for a year: he used those experiences for his novel, Bed of Nails. Since then his books have been published worldwide. He has been a foreign correspondent beginning with the Suez Crisis and ending with the first Gulf War. He was a BBC writer/producer for three flagship BBC programmes: Man Alive, Tomorrow's World and Horizon.

He is a regular contributor to Facta, the respected monthly Japanese news magazine, and he lectures widely on the secret world of intelligence. He also provides expert analysis on intelligence for US and European television and radio programs.His book Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors became a major documentary for Channel Four that he wrote and narrated: The Spy Machine. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s main personnel. The documentary was co-produced by Open Media and Israfilm.

Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors has so far been published in 16 languages. A source for this book was Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence agent, and legendary Israeli spy Rafi Eitan. According to Charles Foster in Contemporary Review: "Writers who know their place are few and far between: fortunately Mr Thomas is one of them. By keeping to his place as a tremendous storyteller without a preacher's pretensions, he has put his book amongst the important chronicles of the state of Israel."

Reviews

[Olethros · Rating 3 out of 5]

-Puede que no sea cierto pero, entretenido, muchísimo.-

Género. Ensayo.

Lo que nos cuenta. Aproximación a China desde la (supuesta) actividad clandestina del país para reforzar sus intereses geopolíticos entre bambalinas mediante el apoyo a fuerzas terroristas, junto a un repaso de los entresijos su historia reciente y de los acontecimientos (según el autor) que desembocaron en Tiananmen.

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[Oscar Ordóñez Jiménez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una gran crónica sobre uno de los hechos más nefastos de la era moderna y de cómo las políticas de defensa de las "potencias mundiales" juegan sus cartas para hacerse del poder mundial. Un gran ejercicio de lectura que los amantes de la crónica, como una novela de la realidad, no pueden dejar pasar.

[Robben García · Rating 4 out of 5]

El detalle de la narrativa de este ensayo sin duda nos clarifica el juego político y de interés de China de mantener el control de su país. El juego que tiene en el mundo por hacerle la vida imposible a Estados Unidos a través de alianzas oscuras con el mundo del Terrorismo.

[Israel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uno de los principales fuertes de este libro es el interesante y desgarrador relato de los hechos ocurridos en 1989 en la Plaza de Tianamen. Una narración balanceada y nutrida que justo cuando parece ahogarse en un mar de tecnicismos y fechas retoma su calidad humana.

Gordon Thomas fue enviado especial en Pekín cuando ocurrieron los terribles sucesos de la plaza de Tiananmen y explica los motivos del asesinato impune de toda una generación de jóvenes que sólo pedían democracia y apertura del régimen, y de las razones que llevaron al resto del mundo a permitirlo.