Meltdown

by James Powlik | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 3548254284 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by Meeresbrise from Aurich, Niedersachsen Germany on Sunday, June 17, 2007
Umwelt-Thriller

Journal Entry 2 by eochaine from Bremen, Bremen Germany on Friday, June 22, 2007
beim Treffen am Mittwoch eingesammelt - mal schauen, wann sich der Moment zum Lesen findet.....

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Dr. Carol Harmon is a bio-acoustic scientist and CEO of the Nolan Group, a worldwide consortium of consulting agencies founded by her second husband, now deceased. She has taken her research vessel, the Phoenix, deep into the Arctic Ocean to track and monitor marine mammals and to study the effects of shipping on the larger members of that group, most specifically blue whales.
What she finds is both distressing and exhilarating for a researcher: five huge blues frozen fast to the underside of an ice floe. What happens after two divers return from an exploratory foray beneath the ice is flat-out horrifying. Severe radiation sickness reduces the men to wriggling, blood-spewing wrecks in a matter of hours. The fact is that the entire region is radioactive to the point of being cooked, and as the arctic spring turns to summer, that hot ice will start to flow and likely bring about the first man-made ice age unless it's checked.

Fortunately for Carol, Dr. Brock Garner, Carol's first ex and a world-class oceanographer in his own right, is but a radio call away. Nolan Group jets are dispatched and in short order Brock and his massive Ukrainian research assistant, Sergei Zubov, are on the Phoenix and on the case. Meltdown is James Powlik's second race-against-time-to-stop-global- environmental-disaster eco-technothriller. And as in 1999's Sea Change, the partnership works handily.

With scientific and environmental technospeak galore (a drop too much, actually) and enough back-stabbing, political dirty-dealing, and military intrigue both foreign and domestic to fill a book twice its size, Meltdown will please Powlik's growing number of followers, Tom Clancy fans, and most anyone with a taste for fast-paced, fact-laced excitement. --Michael Hudson -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

From Publishers Weekly
A lethal slick of radioactive waste threatens to cause a modern-day Ice Age, and only Dr. Carol Harmon and her ex-husband, Brock Garner, the marine scientist heroes of Powlik's debut novel, Sea Change, can stop it. Young Inuit father Victor Tablinivik's teeth are falling out and, like many in his small Arctic village, his wife and young son are slowly dying from leukemia. Making his way across the thawing ice floe as he returns from a late spring hunting trip, Victor discovers entire flocks of dying shorebirds and a dead polar bear. Meanwhile, Harmon, a marine bioacoustic expert, stumbles across five dead blue whales trapped in the ice; they turn out to be highly radioactive. Suspecting a clandestine dumping of radioactive waste in the remote Arctic waters, Harmon sends out a call for help to her celebrated marine biologist ex-husband. Embers of old love flame anew as the couple battle evil agents of covert foreign nuclear powers, discover high-level coverups and indulge in a surfeit of high-tech histrionics. Building on his earlier novel, Powlik delivers another exciting read for environmental enthusiasts, Tom Clancy aficionados and others not intimidated by extensive techno-speakDand the novel seems ripe for the plucking for TV or even film production. (Dec.)
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doch, sehr spannend, diese Geschichte - über wahrscheinlich oder unwahrscheinlich will ich an dieser Stelle mal nicht spekulieren.


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