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Blockbuster writer Michael Crichton's eco-thriller is a dizzying, adventure-packed
novel, embedded with a controversial message. A highly organized group of environmental extremists are linked to the bizarre deaths of a graduate student in wave mechanics and a man who leases submarines, as well as the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy donor to environmental causes. Their plan is to raise awareness of global warming by artificially precipitating natural disasters that will reap a high cost in human lives. Crichton uses his fiction to address some very real concerns of his, citing actual scientific research to contend that global warming is probably a nonexistent threat, and that no one is doing anything effective to determine and solve genuine environmental problems. He further suggests that most environmentalists ignore or twist the research of scientists whose evidence contradicts their agenda, that the people running environmental groups are motivated by greed, and that the activists supporting the groups are motivated by ignorance. Some may dismiss the novel as a right-wing polemic; others may find it a chillingly possible vision of things to come.
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Publisher: HarperAudio;
Abridged edition (December 7, 2004)
ISBN: 0060786027
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Michael Brock has a cushy job at a big, expensive law firm in Washington, D.C. The firm's newest client is a real estate developer with plans to take over a housing area currently occupied by a group of vagrants. When Michael learns that his firm is plotting against the homeless, he quickly switches loyalties and opts to represent the homeless group against the real estate corporation. Only, Michael soon learns that playing against the big boys isn't quite the same game as being part of the team. Even worse, the next around may be deadly.
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This technothriller is part of a series created by the late Robert Ludlum, concerning the activities of Covert-One, a top-secret intelligence agency that responds to biowarfare threats and answers directly to the President. The Lazarus Movement is an environmental group that provides a cover for a scientist's deadly, megalomaniacal plans. When their latest action sets loose a plague of nanophages--microscopic machines programmed to dissolve human tissue--Covert-One must stop the spread of this tiny yet powerful weapon and prevent the scientist's plot from reaching final, devastating completion.
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