Drift [Paperback]

Steven Paul Mark (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1601450621 | ISBN-13: 978-1601450623 | Publication Date: October 23, 2006

At an interview with Imperium Solutions, a mysterious oil company, Max LaFollette inadvertently reveals information triggering a chain reaction that threatens his life. It's the best day he's going to have for a long time.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book is such a great read that to tell more than the opening would spoil it. -- Blogger News Network, December 10, 2006

About the Author

Steven Paul Mark has been an entertainment attorney for over 30 years. He lives in New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. (October 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601450621
• ISBN-13: 978-1601450623
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,189,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great pace, interesting and gripping to the end, December 11, 2006

By 

George Mazzotta "\" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drift (Paperback)

This book was given to me by a friend of the author, and while I was skeptical at first given that this is the author's first novel, I was pleasantly suprised. Drift is novel set in contemporary times, touching upon a wide reach of gripping and fantastically intertwined topics, from global warming, coroporate monopolies and political corruption to homelessness deep beneath the streets of New York City, the musings of Caltech seismologists and military unrest in the former Soviet Union. For a first time author, Mr Mark has truly created an impressive work of entertaining literature. I truly had to force myself to put the book down at night, and was never bored with the storyline or writing style. Drift is a well-written, original story that will not disappoint!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A taut, suspenseful read, highly recommended., March 3, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drift (Paperback)

Entertainment attorney Steven Paul Mark presents Drift, a high-strung thriller novel about Max LaFollette, an unemployed ex-Marine who says the wrong thing at the wrong time to Imperium Solutions, a powerful oil company that is utterly ruthless in exercising its mysterious agenda. Shortly afterward, Max's wife is murdered and he is forced to flee for his life, in a cat-and-mouse chase that leads from the Manhattan undercity to the halls of Washington to the desolation of Chechnya. Set amid a modern era of global warming, catastrophic heat waves, and melting polar ice caps - an accidental byproduct of Imperium's work, or the more sinister outcome of their deliberate plot? - Drift follows LaFollette as the most unlikely instrument of Imperium's destruction, with the ecology of the Earth as humankind knows it in the balance. A taut, suspenseful read, highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A WINNER, February 21, 2007

By 

Dan R. Lewis (FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drift (Paperback)

What a riveting book, a tremendous surprise!

I saw each scene as if watcthing a thriller on the big screen.
IF I WERE THE HEAD OF UNIVERSAL, DRIFT WOULD BE MADE INTO AN ACTION MOVIE!

SURPRISES were, as my 8th graders would say, "SWEET".

Each event was gripping, intricate, yet well conceived and connected.

Character reveals were pleasant revelations.
Intelligently crafted, complex and compelling.

I truly loved the characters-- each extremely well developed. I really cared about what happened to them and could walk in their shoes and see through their eyes.

I honestly did not have time to read it, but found myself looking for, and stealing time to get back to the story. I really loved it, and I don't say that lightly.

Very visual and visceral.
Descriptions were eloquent.

Having taught Science for many years, including Earth Science, I was especially shaken by the plot, that the plates could actually be moved to create such chaos. Your weaving of science and history made it even more plausible and interesting for me.

Gripping
Vivid
SUSPENSEFUL
Action Packed
A page turner
Intelligent

Every page held my interest and I can say honestly, that I was never bored on any page, at any time. It would have been a faster read, if I did not also have a 60 hour plus- per week prior commitment. I couldn't wait to pick it up again.

WHAT AN ACTION PACKED ENDING.
Drift stands on its own, and I look forward to Mr. Mark's next book.

A huge fan!