UNIONVILLE, Ontario, May 11, 2009 — Born in 1947, a few years after the end of World War II, author Joseph Pilarski’s early memories were of growing up in post-Holocaust Poland. Exposed to many post war documentaries, including actual footage shot by the Nazis in the concentration camps, Pilarski spent many years wondering how and why evil is able to dominate the human existence and why people often seem powerless to stop it. “Chinese Chess: A Novel Threat to America” (published by iUniverse), is part of Pilarski’s effort to come to terms with this issue.
“I wrote ‘Chinese Chess’ to further contemplate a nuclear attack on American soil,” explains Pilarski, who immigrated to Canada in 1963 at the age of sixteen. “I chose to call the book ‘Chinese Chess’ after the popular game of strategy that represents a fierce battle between two enemies. In the book, the enemies are good and evil. It is my hope that people might think a bit more clearly about the dangers in the world around us and actively seek change toward the side of good.”
In “Chinese Chess,” Jan Roman is a retired U.S. executive vacationing in Aruba. He begins to have apocalyptic nightmares that culminate with an insight that America may be vulnerable to a nuclear attack. Roman writes the Pentagon, Homeland Security and the White House and requests to speak to someone to whom he could divulge his insight. No one replies. He then comes up with an idea to write a novel about his insight, but chooses a clever scheme that would warn America without divulging the details of the potential attack to the public and to its enemies. Unbeknownst to him, reality unfolds according to the plot outlined in his book. . .
The story moves between America, Canada, Aruba, Barbados, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Spain, England, Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia as part of a global chase and intrigue to discover America’s vulnerability to a nuclear threat.
About the Author
Joseph Pilarski moved from Poland to Barbados in 1957 at the age of ten. At sixteen, he moved to Canada where he went on to graduate from the University of Toronto with majors in Psychology and Near Eastern studies. Pilarski started his working career with IBM in Toronto in 1969, but left after just seven years to form one of the first independent Canadian information technology (IT) consulting companies. Pilarski’s career culminated in the .com era as Chairman and CEO of a TSE-listed internet company. Other books by Pilarski include “The Truth and the Practical God” and “Don’t Spill the Sugar.” Pilarski lives in Unionville, Ontario with this wife, Nigar, and two daughters.
“Chinese Chess”
Available from: http://www.iUniverse.com, http://www.bn.com, and http://www.amazon.com
ISBN: 9780595482115 – 6 x 9 – Paperback – 384 pages – $21.95
ISBN: 9780595718184 – 6 x 9 – Hardcover – 384 pages – $31.95
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