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Title: Seeds of Fire: China And The Story Behind The Attack On America by Gordon Thomas ISBN: 1893302547 Publisher: Dandelion Books Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 5
Summary: The Secret Mysteries Chronicled in Seeds of Fire
Comment: Gordon Thomas's Seeds of Fire is a thorough and frightening expose of Israeli and Communist Chinese intelligence operations against the United States. Thomas documents the role of the Israeli Mossad and LAKAM intelligence agencies in stealing the PROMIS computer software program from Inslaw, Inc., doctoring the program with a backdoor computer microchip, and subsequently employing British media magnate and Mossad asset, Robert Maxwell, to sell the pirated copies to intelligence agencies and commercial banks worldwide, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Communist Chinese CSIS. This operation enabled Israeli and Chinese intelligence to siphon American nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos computers, courtesy of the PROMIS computer software. Establishment Republican figures like Ed Meese and former Texas United States Senator John Tower also play a disturbing role in the PROMIS tragedy, chronicled in detail by Seeds of Fire.
Thomas also provides over 300 pages of eyewitness accounts and original documents pertaining to the events at Tiananmen Square in China in June of 1989, with a disturbing analysis of the compromising character of the political and business relationship of key figures in the American corporate and governmental establishment to the Communist Chinese government. He follows this with disquieting information about the links of Communist Chinese intelligence to both Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
This book is to be particularly valued for the reprints of original investigative documents, including the account of the Israeli theft of the PROMIS software by the Inslaw company, redacted FBI documents pertaining to the investigation of Robert Maxwell, original foreign correspondent dispatches from Tiananmen Square in June of 1989, and excerpts from the official CIA document used by CIA Director George Tenet to brief incoming President George W. Bush at the beginning of his current term.
The reader will be amazed at the comprehensive information presented by Seeds of Fire, along with the absence of this information in the mainstream American media up to the present time. It is a must buy-and-read.
Rating: 2
Summary: not what I expected
Comment: Read the back of the book first and then start from the beginning! Seeds of Fire has nothing of what it promises to the reader. I was thoroughly dissappointed and am sorry I was taken in by the title. Seeds of Fire took me six months to get through because it was not at all about China and the Attack on America, it was about Tiananmen Square! I give this book a YAWN! Tianamen Square is an interesting subject yet I did not bargain for it. Don't buy it unless you want to know about the assault on China's citizens by it own communist government. VERY SAD!
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining; Misleading title though
Comment: Seeds of Fire is an entertaining book, although it was not what I had expected. The book is approximately 500 pages long (with several pages devoted to press clippings, government documents, etc.), but the majority of these pages is dedicated to the story of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. This clearly is what Thomas originally meant for the book to focus on, as most of his research and interview subjects come from the Tiananmen ordeal. Thomas sandwiches the several hundred pages concerning Tiananmen in between introductory and concluding segments that relay his investigative reports on such topics as the Los Alamos espionage case, the activities of the Mossad relating to theft of American intelligence, and the fairly recent American spy plane downing in China. Only in the final few pages of the book does Thomas attempt to tie Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban to the Chinese government, and even then, he makes no direct tie between China and the September 11th massacre which is Bin Laden's ultimate feat to date.
My feelings on this book ranged from highly incredulous to thoroughly fascinated. I found some of Thomas's sources to be seriously flawed, including the woman (an admitted sufferer of multiple personality disorder) who has written to Thomas accusing the CIA of crimes such as having "placed her in an adult-sized gyroscope and spun her to split her personality further" as well as having "forced her to perform in bestiality films, to be sold on the black market." Even Maxine Waters would shy away from accusations as far-fetched as those. By including this lady's letters to him, Thomas makes his claims of sordid American and Israeli espionage that much harder to believe, since most of it can only be documented by Thomas as having come from anonymous intelligence sources.
The best part of the book, which Thomas should have limited the topic to, was the Tiananmen Square massacre account. This is the heart of the book and Thomas's witnesses to the demonstrations and subsequent slaughter were on the scene early, very involved, and highly credible. His research included many trips to China to meet with numerous documentable sources which included Chinese citizens and foreign press that covered the story. The writing in this section of the book is also more colorful, less repetitive (although excessive use of certain phrases is a problem throughout), and more passionate. Contrasting this part of the book with the hastily added, 2001-till-current day, conclusion shows where Thomas's original inspiration for writing this book was. Somehow, even White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove made it into this sloppy addendum as "Carl Roe".
Overall, "Seeds of Fire", for its in-depth, emotionally personal retelling of the events and politics that led up to the Tiananmen Square massacre, is a very entertaining book. Thomas just should have known better and left the peripheral Hollywood spy-drama accounts on the editing room floor.
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Title: Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas ISBN: 0312252846 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui, Col Qiao Liang, Col Wang Xiangsui, Al Santoli ISBN: 0971680728 Publisher: Newsmax.com Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon, Gordon Thomas ISBN: 0786710780 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Jesus Conspiracy: An Investigative Reporter's Look at an Extraordinary Life and Death by Gordon Thomas ISBN: 0801011949 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America by Bill Gertz ISBN: 0895262819 Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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