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SUBJECTIVE REVIEW FOLLOWS:

I'll admit to entering the Ted Bell tribe late, as this is my first novel in his catalogue that I've read. I found it entertaining and his writing style to be conducive to a week-long read. My biggest issue with 'Warriors' is the storyline; could the PRC actually build monster submersible ICBM launch pads and deploy them without our knowing? Most unlikely. I consider Tom Clancy's 'Threat Vector,' in which the Chinese deploy cyber warfare as a more believable threat than the monster unmanned submersibles. Having said that, it was a good read and an entertaining story. It was worth the price of admission.

SPOILER STORYLINE SUMMARY FOLLOWS:

The Restoration of Chinese Supremacy. Bill Chase, a prominent scientist with a major defense contractor is abducted along with his entire family after his 50th birthday party supper at a Georgetown restaurant. Soon after, The President Tom McClosky is poisoned by a White House chef and dies. In the ensuing two years, a number of military pitfalls happen to the US and UK without explanation. Finally, a US Navy destroyer observes a huge submersible breech off of the coast of Florida and the ensuing investigation reveals that it is an unmanned submersible platform longer than any existing submarine with forty ICBMs aboard, ready to launch. Following a number of mysterious deaths in the UK that point to Chinese nationals, Sir Alex Hawke is summoned to duty to stop a Chinese attempt to reconcile centuries of setbacks by blackmailing the US and the UK into surrender, using the submersibles designed by Bill Chase as the Chinese hold his family hostage in a North Korean prison. Hawke leads a group of incomparable mercenary commandos into North Korea and rescues Chase's wife and kids, only to learn that the operation is being centered from Xinbu Island in the South China Sea, headquarters of GEN Sun Yat Moon, Chinese Minister of Security. When the ultimate demands are made by Moon for the US to stand down its forces in the western Pacific or face nuclear incineration along its coast, Hawke and his team race to Xinbu Island, invade it, kill Sun Yat Moon and rescue Chase after destroying the hundreds of ICBMs already launched from the submersibles. Hawk is rewarded in the end by the return of his favorite nanny, Nell Spooner, who assures him of a sex filled future.