Empire Rising

By: Rick Campbell

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

©2015 Rick Campbell (P)2015 Macmillan Audio

Another great book and story. But !!!

This would have a a 5 star book has it been read a lot better. The readers use of voices and dialict trying to sound Chinese were horrible. Plus the tendency to over do some sections with over the top melodrama.

outstanding

all around a very thrilling war story and a must for all you battle heads

Exciting book

Good story. Submarine battle scenes a little redundant . Narration quite good. Lots of excitement . Recommended. Will look for another title.

Kristina

Poor Kristina sure gets injured a bunch. Hope you take it more easy on her in the future. Great book.

Perceptive and timely story; narration was a bit stilted

Timely story with great insights about cyber warfare and the nature of our coming war with China. However, Chinese all sounded like the old Charlie Chan films; US naval officers sounded more like West Texas oilfield hands than the naval officers I’ve known. Great book for techno freaks and Red October fans. I’ve purchased several more by this author.

High Octane Action

I enjoyed the first book in the series so much I decided to read book two. Christine O’Conner is the president’s national security advisor. She advises against signing the Maer Accord about the mutual access to environmental resources between the U.S. and her allies. The Accord severely limits China’s access to natural resources. O’Conner said this will lead to war with China; the Chief or Staff says it will not lead to war. O’Conner flies to China to attempt to offset a war but she is arrested and confined to a cell; as China goes to war. She escapes and eventually end up on the U.S. Michigan, a trident submarine.

Three American submarines are immediately destroyed as China launches war. China’s missiles and ships are more sophisticated than expected and she has many many more than does the Pacific Fleet. When China gets the Pacific Fleet exactly where they want it, they also launch cyberwarfare.
The book is well written and is non-stop action. The battle scenes are real nail biters. The book seems quite realistic. I could hardly put the book down. This is a great military action novel.

I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is about thirteen and a half hours long. Fred Berman does a great job narrating the book. Berman is an actor and award winning audiobook narrator.

It could actually happen.

Hopefully America will never have to declare War again. The elephant in the room would be escalation to use Nuclesr wrapons I kept thinking that the author might go there. This situation is of a type that might find folks thinking in that direction. Scary. ...

GREAT READ.
HARD TO PUT DOWN
WELL TOLD .

Great Book!!!!

I'm a retired Submarine Chief (Nuclear Electronics Technician). I'm a Plank owner on the Kentucky and the Annapolis was my second submarine. This was one of the most interesting books that I've listened to and I've listened to quite a few. I've read many more from a bunk on a submarine and I would say that this ranks very high on my list of great reads. For those that are concerned about the accuracy of the novel, I would say chill out its fiction and the author as a retired Navy man is limited on the actual facts and capabilities that he can divulge. Looking forward to the next book which comes out in a couple weeks.

Fun, Exciting, Action packed solid read

This book is in my special list of Great Books. The story revolves around China going to war with the USA. Not a new concept but this book has an outstanding chase section. During this time I said oh no, yes, oh no, yes, oh no! I laughed at my self because books don’t hit me like that all the time. I truly liked this story, I wish it were a series.

Another great book by Rick!

Book was great from start to finish. Fred Berman does a fantastic job not just narrating but voice acting!!