THE SWARM [Import] [Paperback]

ARTHUR HERZOG (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: MACMILLAN; New Ed edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330246860
• ISBN-13: 978-0330246866
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Killer Bee yarn still a humdinger., February 27, 2002

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Swarm (Paperback)

It's too bad that most people will recognize the title only from Irwin Allen's Golden Turkey Award winning (for Most Badly Bumbled Bee Movie) adaptation rather than from Arthur Herzog's excellent source novel. A plausible feeling blend of fact and fantasy, The Swarm tells of the aggressive Brazilian Killer Bees (derived from the misguided cross-breeding of domestic Brazilian Bees with African Killer Bees, which are quite ill tempered) mistakenly getting introduced into the New York area. Quickly they spread across the country and begin posing a serious threat to the nation's safety. Can the bees be destroyed without harming the citizens or the enviroment? If you are looking for edge of your seat suspense then forget Allen's movie (which is good only for a laugh, believe me - it's my biggest guilty pleasure) and read this book, it is one of the best animal (or in this case insect) attack stories ever written.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the swarm, March 27, 2009

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Angel Liwanag "" book-la "" (los angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Swarm (Paperback)

techno thriller ala michael crichton ( God rest his soul, there goes the jurassic park series). great pacing,keeps you reading right through the end! unfortunately, the movie does not at all deliver the excitement the book does. not many movies do justice to the book, except the first "jurassic park" but then, that's another review altogether.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and terrifying, March 23, 1998

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This review is from: The Swarm (Hardcover)

Moves with speed and thrills. Even reading it now, with killer bees a real threat, it is still highly effective. The movie version by Irwin Allen in 1978 was a travesty compared to this horror/sci-fi classic. Killer bees in this story come into the US via container ships, spreading havoc and famine across the country, and it seems it is up to scientists and the military to stop it. THE BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN!