DRAGON FIRE—William S. Cohen—The former Secretary of Defense (1997-2001) has written quite a thriller of international as well as inter and intra governmental intrigue. Germany, Russia, North Korea, China, the U.S., all characters thier leadership all with friends and enemies. All fiction, however, it's a rapid reading portrayal of what can happen in a world so continuously bent on destruction. “Jealousy and infighting were like oxygen to bureaucracies....Turf protection remained the order of the day. "(302). Rogue military officers, Russian Oligarchs, are characters in the puzzle Secretary of Defense Santini must solve....often working at odds with other agencies of the U.S. Government. (I did not find this book in the SPL catalog.)