SABOTEURS [Import] [Hardcover]

Andrew NIKIFORUK (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: MacFarlane, Walter and Ross (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551990539
• ISBN-13: 978-1551990538
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,236,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Non-Ficion novels out today, April 13, 2004

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Brendan Hood (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (Paperback)

Andrew has captured the essence of Wiebo Ludwig with this book. This book reads like a thriller, a mystery and a drama, and it is all true. He has gone beyond what the news told you about the saga that gripped the Alberta Oilfield and told the real story. It is an amazing book and most definitely addictive. Once you start, you won't want to stop.

4.0 out of 5 stars Changing Point of View, February 25, 2003

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Craig Rautenstrauch (Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (Paperback)

When you first begin to read this novel, you begin with a very biased opinion against Wiebo Ludwig. Now I'm not trying to protect the man, but after you have finished reading the book, then you really have a changed point of view. In my personal opinion of the man, I think that he had ligitment problems, but just a bad way of dealing with them. Living close to all the happenings of the Ludwig case, has brought a good many personal thoughts into the book, but Nikiforuk has brought a realistic and neutral position into his book.

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolutely wonderful book., January 15, 2003

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Rahul Krishnan (Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SABOTEURS (Hardcover)

Few things ever written by human beings, if any, are objective in the way they tell a story. Saboteurs is a book that comes very close to that. It is about the struggle of a man called Weibo Ludwig, who although at first seems a little radical in his beliefs and idealogies, does what everybody would do: protect their family. Alberta being an oil and gas rich province, relies strongly on income made from royalties from energy companies that operate in the province. When a gas company moved right onto Ludwig's Christian community, he was outraged as they invaded his land and treated it like their own exposing everyone in the surrounding area to poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas. This led him to take drastic measures after talks and negotiations with the oil companies had failed.
Whether you support the oil companies or Ludwig in this struggle, Saboteurs is a book that everyone should read.