Lethal Exposure [Paperback]

Kevin J. Anderson (Author), Doug Beason (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

At Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois--Fermilab--Nobel candidate Georg Dumenco is bombarded with enough radiation to kill him within days.

FBI Special gent Craig Kreident knows it was no accident--but he has to prove it. Only Dumenco knows enough to track down his own killers. If he lives long enough...

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Anderson and Beason are both physicists, which gives their latest plenty of scientific authenticity. So if you know the difference between Feynman diagrams and scattering matrices and don't mind two-dimensional characters, this should be your superconducting cup of tea. Nobel-nominated physicist Georg Dumenco is blasted with radiation while working on a project at Fermilab?the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. What appears to be an accident is, of course, not and Dumenco's beautiful, tempestuous doctor, Trish LeCroix, recruits her former lover, Craig Kreident, crack FBI agent and Scientific American subscriber?and protagonist of Virtual Destruction and Fallout?to investigate before Dumenco succumbs. Intrigues from India, radiation sickness, a few gunshots, and a love triangle point up the importance difference between nuanced complexity and confusing complications.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 290 pages
• Publisher: Ace (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441005365
• ISBN-13: 978-0441005369
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,109,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the beef?, March 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lethal Exposure (Paperback)

Anderson and Beason try unsuccessfully to combine the particle physics subject matter of hard sci-fi author Gregory Benford with the "I'm just a good-old FBI agent" narrative approach of Tom Clancy.

While the story successfully presents a mystery involving high-energy particle physicists, there is very little technical content to go along with it. Besides having predictable 1-dimensional characters (just like Clancy) the book has its share of other aggravations. For starters, it contains a critical overuse of the unheard of term, "towelhead", describing East Indians that wear turbans. And let's not forget the "sepia-eyed" nurse whose too often quoted expression is that she "never felt this helpless since Chernobyl" and did we mention that she was "sepia-eyed"? Oh yes and just in case you didn't get it before, her eyes are the color of, what's that, oh yes "sepia". ARRGGG!! And what in the world is so special about a checkered tablecloth turned 90 degrees?

Terribly unsatisfying read.

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok read, but best not to think too hard, June 15, 2000

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Craig M. Bobchin "30 + years as an amateur as... (California - the Cereal bowl of the USA [The land of fruits, nuts and flakes]) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lethal Exposure (Paperback)

Having read Beason and Anderson's other books with the same characters, I found "Lethal Exposure" a bit of a dissapointment. While the characters were fairly well developed, and the idea had merit, the actual execution left something to be desired.

For instance I did not believe for one minute that Baretti could be that clueless as to the Indian's true motives. I had it figured out as soon as they sat down to talk the first time.

As another example, Kriedent should have been able to discern the cause of the explosion a lot sooner than he did. He had all the clues and specialized knowledge in front of him. Why it took me 3/4s of the book to figure out is beyond me. Again This was so obvious that it was practially shoved in the reader's face and I was able to determine the cause when they first met Dumenco and learned what he was working on.

All in all I'd give this book a read, if you are on a plane and there is nothing else to read. Otherwise skip it.

5.0 out of 5 stars . Tom Clancy meets the X-Files, only better., November 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lethal Exposure (Paperback)

I have always thought the X-files was a good idea taken to far. This FBI thriller has a reality based X-Files approach, but the quality of a Tom Clancy Novel. Don't judge this book by it's cheesy cover.