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  Zodiac - Neal Stephenson
Once Stephenson brings gunfire into the picture, and death and mayhem in the form of boat crashes and exploding houses and bombs, the book deflates like one of those Hefty bags of nitrous oxide and most of the fun goes with it.
Yeah, there is still a fair amount of thrill in the thriller, and it continues at the high pace, roaring to the big dramatic finale.
It is not a bad read, but it is just a decent thriller like any of dozens of others we have read (whereas the beginning held the promise of a truly fine book, one unlike most we have come across).
www.complete-review.com /reviews/stephenn/zodiac.htm   (921 words)

  
 Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
The proganist, not necessarily hero, is likable in his sheer audacity and the amazing ways he finds to "rock the boat".
Stephenson has turned this book into both a commentary on the environmental crisis of our day and a suspense thriller worthy of any mystery writer.
Fans of science fiction and thrillers, readers of modern fiction, environmentalists, and anyone looking for a good read should pick this up.
www.smartybrain.com /shopde/product/0553573861/Zodiac.html   (563 words)

  
 Press Action ::: Water Inc.: A Hard-Hitting Eco-Thriller
That’s the backdrop to Varda Burstyn’s tantalizing new novel “Water Inc.,” in which a shady business consortium seeks to build a pipeline that would transport great volumes of water from Quebec to those agricultural regions of the United States thirsty for liquid replenishment.
The eco-political thriller, Burstyn’s first novel, introduces readers to an American business tycoon who recognizes the terrible environmental problems on the horizon and develops the controversial plan to ship the water from Canada south of the border.
Generally, though, Water Inc., published by Verso, is a must-read for anyone looking for a political thriller that goes beyond typical palace intrigue.
www.pressaction.com /news/weblog/full_article/burstyn07162005   (619 words)

  
 Gregg Hurwitz :: Books :: Minutes to Burn
A riveting and spine-tingling thriller, Minutes to Burn takes you on a terrifying, unforgettable expedition through an ecological disaster in the not too distant future.
Minutes to Burn is really an eco-thriller because it’s not about the location alone, or the virus, or the animals of Galápagos, but rather the way all these things come together at a particular time within a specific environment, to form a stressful and dangerous series of events.
The Tower is a psychological thriller, and this book is all the things we’ve been discussing, but it’s certainly not a psychological thriller.
www.gregghurwitz.net /minutes-to-burn.htm   (5632 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The book's main character is an ecological-crime detective, busily hunting down evidence of corporations illegally dumping hazardous waste and using publicity stunts and clogging up discharge pipes with cement as his main weapons against these companies.
The book takes on a decided thriller aspect with the introduction of gene-tailored bacteria, designed to 'eat' contaminates, but there is a variety that generates them instead.
The plot moves rapidly and logically, with enough potential hazard in the situation to easily quality as a 'thriller'.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0871131811   (1557 words)

  
 Water, Inc.
They’re resisted by a whistle-blowing executive, the director of a major US environmental organization, a group of Quebec ecologists, a feisty British journalist, three rogue policemen, a reluctant eco-terrorist and a maverick Vermont governor hated by the consortium and the White House.
In an era during which water scarcity—“one of the major problems of the twenty-first century,” according to the UN—becomes a very real proposition for much of the world, Water, Inc. is an exquisitely timely political thriller.
With action sprawling across urban and rural America, into the cities and beautiful wilderness of Quebec, and as far as Mexico, Lisbon, London and Brussels, it is a story of greed, heroism, clashing loyalties, love, hate and mortal risk.
www.versobooks.com /books/ab/b-titles/burstyn_water_inc.shtml   (258 words)

  
 eBay - thriller novel, Fiction Books, Wholesale, Bulk Lots items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
THE STREET LAWYER JOHN GRISHAM THRILLER NOVEL dan brown
Lot of 12 John Saul Novels Horror Thriller HB PB Tape
The Arraignment Steve Martini Legal Thriller HC Novel
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=thriller+novel&newu=1&...   (386 words)

  
 iFMagazine.com News - FINE LINE BUYS ECO'S 'PENDULUM'
The deal marks the first time in over a decade that the author has granted the rights to his work.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER stated that PENDULUM, Eco's second novel, was published in 1988, has been translated into 39 languages and sold more than 14 million copies.
His most famous work is THE NAME OF THE ROSE, which was an international hit in 1986 under director Jean-Jacques Annaud.
www.ifmagazine.com /new.asp?article=993   (274 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Zodiac: Books: Neal Stephenson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It is written like a thriller: lots of chase scenes and explosions, narrator is solving a mystery while being chased by bad guys and the pieces fall into place way too easily such that the book goes from action scene to action scene without much pausing.
That makes for some chase scenes and thriller type stuff that isn't really dangerous in a thriller type way.
However, ST has found some particularly nasty Agent Orange type pollution in the harbor and it is becoming clear that it is linked to a company formerly controlled by a local politician and presidential hopeful.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553573861?v=glance   (2186 words)

  
 Water Inc. Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Now along comes a new, major thriller by a Canadian, which is remarkable in itself--interestingly, this country rarely does thrillers.
Varda Burstyn's Water Inc. is as good as the best political thrillers, and even better, because as you read, you learn things that everyone should know about the water industry.
Readers without a political bias who are simply looking for a great thriller will enjoy Water, Inc. Those with an environmental bent will enjoy the book even more and find themselves cheering out loud for the good guys all the way to the final page.
www.vardaburstyn.com /waterreviews.htm   (3977 words)

  
 WCU NEWS - WESTERN'S BRIAN RAILSBACK PENS ECO-THRILLER, "THE DARKEST CLEARING"
“It's being described as a literary thriller, or eco-thriller, and that's not what I thought I was doing when I started.”
Midwest Book Review says “The Darkest Clearing” is “dark, dramatic, entertaining, and highly recommended for community library fiction shelves.” A reviewer for the Charlotte Observer said the book “should satisfy readers looking for a thriller with meat on its bones, especially those passionate about wilderness and intrigued by the dark recesses of the human heart.”
With one novel finished, Railsback is in the process of writing two others while continuing work on another longterm project, editing “The John Steinbeck Encyclopedia.”
www.wcu.edu /pubinfo/news/railsbackbook04.htm   (710 words)

  
 Stealing Tahoe - Eco-Ethnic Thriller by John Newman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Stealing Tahoe - Eco-Ethnic Thriller by John Newman
A new novel about passion, peyote, water rustling,
Cave Rock on the East shore of Lake Tahoe, where the Washo believe that Water Babies (me'tsunge) congregate and which is believed to contain the entrance to a tunnel that allowed them to travel to the adjoining Carson Valley waterways
stealingtahoe.com   (68 words)

  
 Louis Charbonneau Reviews
Charbonneau's feel for the immensity, harshness and fragility of the Antarctic landscape and his strong ecoaction message do not overpower this thriller.
Old pro Charbonneau constructs an absorbing, effective thriller.
Numerous of Charbonneau's novels have been selections of Reader's
awfulagent.com /reviews/charbonneau2.html   (978 words)

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