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Drift

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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!

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.

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!

As good as Crichton --this guy knows his stuff --i will get a chill every time i hear a vibration.

Great adventure -- non stop action with unforgettable characters -- both evil and heroic.

And i learned just enough about "tectonic plates" and Natural History to be dangerous.

'Drift" will be one hell of a movie!

I've been meaning to write a review of Steven Paul Mark's wonderful "Drift" for a year. It took Dan Brown's terrible "The Lost Symbol" to twist my arm. Every few pages in Brown's latest, I curse out loud wishing it was half the book "Drift" is. I haven't enjoyed a read as much in years. It would make a terrific movie.

I know this is a cry in the wilderness, but how is it that people like Brown and many other thriller writer become successful writing books that are mostly trash, while books as exciting and intelligent as "Drift" go mostly unnoticed?

If you want a great stay-up-all-night read and want to learn about the real but hidden New York City underground and the breath-holding dangers of our planet's own underground, you couldn't spend a better piece of change. Mark is a genius.

Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (1/07)

I found it hard to believe that "Drift" is the first novel that author Steven Paul Mark has written. The author obviously has done a lot of research on a variety of subjects; geology, government, corporations, FBI, NYPD and the New York subterranean are only some of the topics he covered in this very well written novel.

The world as he knows it is over for ex-Marine Max LaFollette. He just lost his job, his wife is murdered and now Max is running for his life from the people who killed her and hiding out from the NYPD who thinks he is involved in his wife's murder. He inadvertently set off a chain of events that he cannot control when he interviewed at Imperium Solutions. The only way for him to survive is move underground to live in the subterranean beneath New York City with a band of ragtag warriors determined to stop the diabolical plans that Imperium Solutions has embarked on.

At the same time, the world weather has gone crazy. Earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, polar ice cap melting and weather reversals are occurring all over the globe. Could it really be true that a corporation really has the technology to cause all of this devastation? As Max realizes the enormity of the problem he heads to California to meet with the famous geologist Becky Hausman, who he had rescued from an accident in the subway tunnels in New York. She quickly joins his efforts to stop this company from destroying the world.

As Max and his fellow warriors move to stop this company they head to Washington D.C. and find out that the reach of Imperium is too high and nothing will be done about the evidence that they uncovered. Realizing that the world is headed for disaster if this company is not stopped they head for Chechnya for the final confrontation.

The story is very fast paced and full of intrigue and drama from the beginning to the end. It is very hard to put down once you start it. It is very disturbing to read this after all the crazy weather, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunami that we have seen over the last few years. I highly encourage people that enjoy detail oriented thrillers to read this book. I also think that "Drift" has the makings for what would make a great movie.

Received book free of charge.