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Black Rain for Christmas
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Bellevue Publishers
Published: Aug 28 2025
Pages: 630
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
After 50 years of the Cold War and 25 years of the War on Terror, the world hoped for peace and prosperity but instead faced crisis after crisis: genocides in Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Congo, and the former Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, global militaries shrank as nations pursued a peace dividend, relying instead on technology to act as force multipliers stealth bombers, advanced tanks, and digital systems that made small forces devastatingly effective.
Yet history echoed Plato's warning: Only the dead have seen the end of war. Every collapsed regime and ignored genocide was a signal of how quickly the world could spiral into total conflict. After 9/11, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke told the commission America failed due to a failure of imagination.
Black Rain for Christmas, written in 1992, imagines how a small international crisis could spark a third world war. Told through news reports, letters, and narrative, the novel explores how 21st-century technologies might both empower and endanger modern militaries. Decades later, its predictions are familiar. It's a haunting reminder: when mankind stares too long into the abyss, the abyss just might stare back.
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