In 2003, he was paralysed from the waist down after being shot multiple times by terrorists while filming in Saudi Arabia. Invasion , by Frank Gardner. This, alone, makes the passages of this novel that deal with China’s deployment of weapons and miliary equipment ahead of an invasion of Taiwan scarily plausible. The prevention of the invasion and, with it, World War III may hinge on her rescue. This might be hard to avoid in a book that targets a general readership but could surely have been done more subtly.

Source: Taipei Times January 07, 2026 17:12 UTC