Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780812571165
ISBN number: 0812571169
Label: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Manufacturer: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Page Count: 588
Printing Date: 1998-11
Publishing house: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Sale Popularity Level: 928964
Studio: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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Emma Tooke has devoted her life to Gulfstream, a company dedicated to harvesting clean energy from the sea. To keep her ocean project-station alive, she's risked her career fighting corporate treachery, and her life battling the fury of a killer hurricane.
But suddenly Emma faces a threat greater than she's ever encountered--a band of extremist vigilantes calling themselves 'Wild Justice,' who consider Gulfstream evil for the hope it raises--that an American energy corporation can be a force for environmental reform.
So Wild Justice has targeted Gulfstream, using an old flame of Emma's to get past her defenses, and the project's. As the clock ticks toward the zero hour, Emma must join forces with a man who may have betrayed her....
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A thriller. This novel moves Abbey's MONKEY WRENCH GANG (Avon Books, 1975) into the future in a gripping tale of high tech good intentions and environmental activism. The good guys aren't always, the bad guys are really pretty decent, and the reader is left wrestling with subtle shades of grey -- while the characters wrestle with hurricanes, bombs, subversion and office politics.
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The motivation for the eco-terrorist' attack is absolutely improbable and absurd. The cardboard characters lack any depth. Read this as a fast comic book type action/adventure only. The technical& science aspects are well done, especially the diving sequences, however the predictable plot and lack of characterization makes this an unsatisfying read.
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This is a dandy adventure story. In the center of all the action is Gulf Stream, an offshore structure dedicated to research and "green" industry. Add a group of ecoterrorists determined to destroy it, a dedicated group of employees striving to save it from all enemies including economic difficulties, undercover agents, a hurricane, a bit of romance and a wayward octopus named Louis, and you have the setting for some interesting action. It has a nice mix of male and female characters, with Emma Took (who designed Gulf Stream) taking the lead. I had some difficulty sorting out all the characters at first. And despite the drawings of the Gulf Stream, I didn't always know where the action was taking place -- but that may just be me -- I never could read a blueprint. Overall a satisfying read which kept me from opening other books, and which would probably translate nicely into a film I would like to see.
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Talk about misrepresentation! Tom Clancy is probably cringing at the use of his name in conjunction with this mildly written, some-what entertaining work. Totally predictable, with a dismail cliff-hanger (perhaps "ditch-hopping" is better) ending.
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This is a very good book. It's an eco-thriller, based on a deep-sea energy generation platform whose engineering and economics seem far more believable than, say, NASA's chances of occupying a new space station on-time and on-budget; science fiction, but set in the *very* near future. There are good good-guys, and bad bad-guys, and good bad-guys, and bad good-guys: lot's of character development motivated by ethical conflict. There's also a generous dose of Man vs. Nature, handled, I thought, fairly well. Although I don't scuba dive, the underwater sequences seemed very believable.
I've reread this book several times now, and I'm glad I got it in hardcover. If you've gotten this far in this review, I think you'll like this book, too.
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