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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; New edition edition (19 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0731810449
  • ISBN-13: 978-0731810444
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 321,379 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ian Irvine's brilliant new novel creates an all too familiar society that is surrounded by escalating environmental terrorism, extreme global climate change and violent technological upheaval. In the 1950s the British carried out atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Afterwards they blew up 23 kilograms of plutonium with explosives, then left the fragments lying around in the desert. Thirty years later, two students, Ryn and Hercus, decide to steal a huge piece of plutonium, one of the deadliest substances on the planet, and bury it in the backyard. It is 2010, twenty years after the prank. Hercus is a middle-aged failure obsessed with the continuing destruction of the environment. In a desperate attempt to redeem himself he digs up the plutonium and blackmails his friend, Ryn, to help him achieve the ultimate act of terrorism. Jemma, Ryn's wife, narrates the story as the couple try to stop Hercus without incriminating Ryn. Set against the backdrop of technological wizardry, political intrigue and environmental lobby group battling for control of society, Jemma and Ryn race against time to stop Hercus from fulfilling his deadly dream.


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Ian Irvine lives in North Dorrigo, New South Wales. He has been an environmental scientist for the past twenty years. An expert in pollution management, he has written some of Australia's national guidelines for the protection of the marine environment. He is also the author of the international bestselling fantasy quartet, The View From the Mirror.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A chilling glimpse at the future?!!, 30 Dec 2001
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This book was bought for me by mistake but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. From the moment I picked it up I couldn't put it down and as its the first of a trilogy I'm now looking forward to the next two. Irvine keeps you on the edge of your seat all through the book as all the environmental events that take place could happen.
It certainly made me think.
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