Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson first teamed up to write Category 7, vividly portraying the devastating impact of a powerful hurricane on New York City. Now Evans and Jameson return with Frozen Fire, another edge-of-the-seat thriller that mixes atmospheric science with cutting-edge technology.
Eager to exploit a potentially lucrative energy source, billionaire Dennis Cavendish has begun to tap the crystalline methane under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Eco-terrorism kills his science team and releases gigatons of poisonous methane into the water and atmosphere, causing untold deaths. If the release isn’t stopped, all life on Earth will soon disappear.
Suspected of the sabotage and marooned far from home, Cavendish’s beautiful and brainy security chief, Victoria Clark, along with methane expert Dr. Sam Briscoe and the US government, must find a way to seal the break in the ocean floor and nullify the methane that is already poisoning the planet.
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Evans and Jameson follow their bestselling debut, Category 7, about an evil scientist and his manmade hurricanes, with an eco-thriller with an even more imaginative premise. Deep beneath the seabed in the eastern Caribbean near the island of Taino lies a massive bed of methane hydrate, the only truly clean-burning fuel on earth. Megabusinessman Dennis Cavendish, Taino's owner, has built an undersea habitat, Atlantis, from which he plans to mine the methane hydrate, a complicated operation that, if bungled, could imperil the planet. Out to sabotage the process is charismatic Garner Blaylock, Earth activist, unsung genius and Dennis Cavendish's worst nightmare. Blaylock and his team of sex-enslaved women are prepared to die destroying all human life if it means cleansing the globe of pollutants. Readers will race right along with Dr. Sam Briscoe, a methane specialist, and the novel's other good guys as they feverishly strive to save the world. (June)
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Ever wonder the result if Harold Robbins had written a disaster novel? Although Harold has gone on to take his place with Shakespeare and Hemingway, his purple prose lives on in this sophomore (or perhaps sophomoric) venture from meteorologist (aka TV weatherman) Evans and sci-tech specialist Jameson. Risk-taking billionaire Dennis Cavendish has discovered a method to tap vast supplies of crystallized methane (a powerful new energy source) from deep beneath the Caribbean, but eco-terrorists destroy his facility and release massive quantities of methane into the ocean. If the methane builds up in the atmosphere, all life on earth will become extinct. The characters are barely one-dimensional: all the women are beautiful and sexy, while all the men—from the U.S. president on down to the bit-player security guards—are handsome and hard-bodied; the dialogue is right out of a 1960s James Bond movie; and the plot is formulaic. But the science makes sense, the gore factor is off the chart, and the villains are high-end despicable, so count on this one for a no-calorie summer snack—perfect for lazing on the beach or passing time in the airport. --Michael Gannon
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I just could not finish this book. That's really rare - even with the bad books, I try to sludge through and finish them. This one I finally just gave up on half way through, having decided the world would have to end or not without me.
The dual writer format just did not mesh well in this book - they seemed to stop and start. The author's voice did not flow smoothly and I clearly felt I was hearing/reading two seperate thought patterns, it was distracting. Then there was the irregular flow to the story itself and the fact that bouncing from various perspectives was done badly. That worked brilliantly for Stephen King in "The Stand", but in this book every switch felt like I had missed an entire transitional paragraph making the change from one character or place to the next. Finally.... we did not need to know EVERY SINGLE TINY DETAIL about EVERY SINGLE character in the book even the minor players. Their eyebrow color, the thickness of nostril hairs, the color of the paint in a room from childhood, a pilot's personal feelings about the uniforms of the flight attendant, on and on and on and ON AND ON AND ON with trivial minutia.
The trivial irrelevant details with no real forward movement of the end of the world plot is what finally prompted me to toss the book aside.
The dual writer format just did not mesh well in this book - they seemed to stop and start. The author's voice did not flow smoothly and I clearly felt I was hearing/reading two seperate thought patterns, it was distracting. Then there was the irregular flow to the story itself and the fact that bouncing from various perspectives was done badly. That worked brilliantly for Stephen King in "The Stand", but in this book every switch felt like I had missed an entire transitional paragraph making the change from one character or place to the next. Finally.... we did not need to know EVERY SINGLE TINY DETAIL about EVERY SINGLE character in the book even the minor players. Their eyebrow color, the thickness of nostril hairs, the color of the paint in a room from childhood, a pilot's personal feelings about the uniforms of the flight attendant, on and on and on and ON AND ON AND ON with trivial minutia.
The trivial irrelevant details with no real forward movement of the end of the world plot is what finally prompted me to toss the book aside.
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To be honest, I barely got past chapter five. I picked up this book and put it right down. I didn't come back to it for several weeks and but than I tried to read it again but had no interest to do so. While I am sure this book may be good, it moved too slowly for me and there was too much description going on. I just wanted to get on to the exciting part. Maybe some day when I have time, I might pick this book up again.
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While the premise behind the book is fascinating and could have made for a great read, when the whole thing pans out, all I can say is, "Huh?"
First of all, the book seemed a bit hard to follow at first, jumping around, and it made it hard to keep track of the characters. Second, I found the characters to be inconsistent. Especially Dennis. Is he power hungry? Greedy? Humanitarian? Insane? All of the above? He is seemingly all of these, one at a time, depending on where in the book you are. The other characters are also highly unbalanced, though Dennis takes the cake. Also, what happens in the book is often so far-fetched as to be distracting.
I made it through the whole book but I had to read it a little at a time. While it kept me mildly entertained, I would not have chosen to read this book if I knew then what I know now.
First of all, the book seemed a bit hard to follow at first, jumping around, and it made it hard to keep track of the characters. Second, I found the characters to be inconsistent. Especially Dennis. Is he power hungry? Greedy? Humanitarian? Insane? All of the above? He is seemingly all of these, one at a time, depending on where in the book you are. The other characters are also highly unbalanced, though Dennis takes the cake. Also, what happens in the book is often so far-fetched as to be distracting.
I made it through the whole book but I had to read it a little at a time. While it kept me mildly entertained, I would not have chosen to read this book if I knew then what I know now.
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