Very excited to read this novel about mercenaries destroying the Chinese fishing fleets
It does raise the question: when will we finally have enough and deal with these problems?
The Cantonese are sterilizing entire swathes of the oceans, crawling over them like locusts and vacuuming up everything that lives, wiping out ecosystems with their massive fleets so that they can feed pigs "raised" in dystopian skyscrapers back home
Right now, "international law" prevents dealing with this tragedy of the commons even as it destroys national (responsible) fishing fleets, puts such wonders of nature as the Galapagos at risk, and causes immense harm
Mercenaries are one way of fixing this, privateers are another
Either way, it looks like if we are to fix this, it will be because we're headed back to the 16th/17th century style of doing things, where states didn't necessarily want to fight openly but did want to harm each other, and so let private parties do it while claiming ignorance
Such could at least save the oceans
The Chinese are raping the oceans with their Tyranid hive fleets, pillaging the territorial waters of South America and daring governments to do something about it.
What if someone did?
What if someone hired mercs to fall upon them in the night like wolves of the sea?
What if someone wrote a novel about that?
@frank_kidd_1 did just that, and it's fucking great.
Here's my review.