From Library Journal
The Green Army Commandos, an ecoterrorist group hoping to save the earth, take over a mediocre Los Angeles television station in an attempt to stop the funding of an offshore nuclear desalinization plant. If their demands are not met, they will detonate the plutonium they are carrying in their vests. After several bizarre events, the hostages help manipulate network executives and government officials into agreeing with the Green Army's demands, which in turn creates high ratings for the station. Spinrad (Russian Spring, Bantam, 1992) gives this novel the impersonal and superficial look of a television news broadcast. Using only dialog and interaction between hostages and captors and the outside world, his story develops without a sense of plot, character development, or suspense. After a disjointed first half, the plot begins to take off, but by then it is too late. Not an essential purchase.
Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Spinrad has taken what should have been a tired and hackneyed plot, that of ecological terrorists taking a Los Angeles TV station hostage in order to publicize their message, and applied to it enough twists to make it look like the path of a mongoose on crack. Crisis follows crescendo follows climax as the usually sure, formulaic ground of a thriller is shaken like a California quake. Along the way, Spinrad gets beyond the clich{‚}ed faces of his characters and even beyond the conventionally unconventional faces behind them. The characters turn into real people, able to carry the action where it's going. Spinrad has shown his mastery of this genre as well as his preferred haunts along its edges yet again. Dennis Winters
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