In the Arizona desert a lone trucker sees a flash of light and hears a deafening sound. When he stops to investigate, he becomes the first casualty of a top-secret, military conspiracy known only to a select few as World Order. When NASA investigator Linda Franklin is called into survey the wreckage of this aircraft she's never seen before, she stumbles onto a piece of a high-level Pentagon plot to use a biochemical weapon National print ads. Satellite tour & online publicity .
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From Publishers Weekly
A conventional woman-on-the-run-from-mysterious-forces plot gains new levels of obscurity in Goliszek's (Rivers of the Black Moon) turgid tale of high-level biowarfare coverups. Widowed NASA molecular biologist Linda Jackson is suspicious when the investigation of a mysterious plane crash is suddenly closed. After her boss is murdered, Linda and her husband's friend John Peterson undertake their own investigation. Soon, the two sleuths are off to Malaysia, where they break into a secret biochemical installation while various characters?the president, a fanatical Army general, a group of military-industrial plutocrats calling themselves the Vanguard?deliver arias about downsizing, drugs, international unrest, NAFTA, GATT and other threats to America. Although these events occur in the spring of 1996, there's hardly any mention of the upcoming election. The writing is pedestrian at best, and the murky plot and plethora of scientific jargon will muddle most readers, who might profit by first reading the afterword. In it, Goliszek offers apparently heartfelt theories about "psychochemical warfare," government secrecy and Gulf War Syndrome?including his contention that America gave Iraq its germ warfare technology and knowingly gave U.S. troops ineffective gas masks. Appendix not seen by PW.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A thriller with an agenda: Goliszek's first novel concerns a Pentagon plot to create a biochemical weapon, while his afterword argues that such a weapon really was used, causing the Gulf War syndrome.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Frightening and preaching,
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This review is from: World Order (Hardcover)
True, this book isn't high fiction, but the story it tells is chilling. In a time of concern about WMD, this book shows perhaps who is really behind biological weapons research. Other than the writing style (which is mawkish and strained), the only real down point of the book is the concept that America's stature in the world has declined primarly due to drugs. When the drug pipelines of the world are wiped out, America bounces back from the edge of destruction, according to Goliszek. Of course, the problem could more easily be solved by legalization, but as a person employed in the field of public health, it would be against engrained dogma for the author to admit such. Still, a scary look at the illegalites our government seems to relish in dealing in.
2.0 out of 5 stars
GOOD IDEA - POOR EXECUTION,
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This review is from: World Order (Mass Market Paperback)
By the first 100 pages you know how it's going to finish but it's still interesting, then the characters become predictable and the writing is like a screenplay for the X Files. Too many holes in the plot for anyone who likes realism in their stories
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very factual fiction,
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This review is from: World Order (Mass Market Paperback)
Readers either liked or disliked this book, based I suppose on their political orientation (i.e., the last review). I thought it was very good in its portrayal of the dangers of biological weapons and the government's penchant for secret programs. Perhaps the writing is not as "literary" as some reviewers would have liked, but it is good suspense nonetheless. The author lays out a plot of what seems to based loosely on fact, and he then goes on to show us in the afterward and appendix that he had access to a lot of government documents. I recommend it.
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