mahound wrote:Monsoon wrote:Yes its always going to be a problem, todays latest technological weapons designed to beat the enemy, will tomorrow be sitting in the hands of the enemy.
Dont know which bookit was, but apparently the whole idea of using an areoplane as a missile and crashing it into a building was in a fiction book about 3 - 5 years before Sept 11th 2001
Tom Clancy uses it in
Debt of Honour. It was actually quite scary, because I read that book only weeks before 9/11. And then again I read
The Cell by Forbes, which revolves around a terrorist cell plotting to destroy London's bridges. And what do you know? Weeks later, as I was in London, it turned out to be 7/7. Couldn't go into town that day because of the tube bombings.
Since I've now barged up quite an old topic I might as well use it to discuss something I found peculiar. I bought
Wild Justice about a year ago and finally got around to reading it. I had already read it, but hey, that's what I do. (I'm currently reading
When the Lion Feeds for the fourth time, so...) What struck me was that when I opened
Justice the dedication was to his new wife. Er... what? I don't know if anybody has a copy from 1979, but I'm pretty sure he didn't know his new wife back then. So he changed the dedication. This seems a bit callous to me.
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