{"id":3184,"date":"2008-12-01T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T10:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/01\/worlds-deadliest-novel\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T10:31:22","slug":"worlds-deadliest-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/01\/worlds-deadliest-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s Deadliest Novel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yorkshire Ranter points out the similarities<\/a> between last week’s horrific attacks in Mumbai and Frederick Forsyth’s The Dogs of War<\/cite><\/a>, and dubs it the “world’s deadliest novel.” Steinn picks up on this, and wonders if it’s accurate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The plot of Dog’s of War is a coup in an African country, and it seems likely the book has been used as a “how to” manual several times, possibly most recently in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

But, is it really the world’s deadliest novel? And if not, what is?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m tempted to nominate Atlas Shrugged<\/cite>, but it’s way too early to assess the impact of the current economic collapse. Also, it might wriggle out by being more of a polemic than a novel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yorkshire Ranter points out the similarities between last week’s horrific attacks in Mumbai and Frederick Forsyth’s The Dogs of War, and dubs it the “world’s deadliest novel.” Steinn picks up on this, and wonders if it’s accurate: The plot of Dog’s of War is a coup in an African country, and it seems likely… Continue reading World’s Deadliest Novel?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}