The Doomsday Show
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
In this action-packed environmental thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Final Theory, a good-hearted climate activist must stop terrorists from assassinating the worst fossil-fuel tycoons.
Five climate criminals. One assassination plot. One man caught in the middle.
It's Climate Emergency Week in New York City. Thousands of environmentalists are protesting against the ongoing destruction of the planet. Also here are the five fossil-fuel tycoons and reactionary politicians who were labeled 'The Worst Climate Criminals' by Max Mirsky, former editor of the Journal of Climatology.
When Number Five on the list mysteriously dies as Max confronts him, quickly followed by Number Four, Max becomes the FBI's prime suspect. Things then go from bad to worse when his daughter is kidnapped.
Max can't sit back and wait for the FBI to solve the case. He must rescue his daughter and discover who the real assassins are. And he must stop the killings before the outrage and backlash destroy all hopes for a climate-change solution.
What will happen to Max's daughter - and all future generations - if he fails?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This entertaining environmental thriller from Alpert (The Coming Storm) opens during Climate Emergency Week when Manhattan's streets are swarming with protestors. Max Mirsky, the head of the Doomsday Theater Company, is performing a parody of a song from Oliver! mocking Hollister Tarkington, CEO of Stygian Energy, "America's biggest coal-mining company," outside its corporate headquarters. Suddenly, a masked woman approaches Max and reminds him he once wrote an article naming the five people who have done the most damage to the environment, including Hollister. She whispers, "We just got number five. Now we're going after the other four." When Hollister drops dead in his office and another on the list dies a suspicious death, the FBI suspects Max is responsible. Soon afterward, terrorists kidnap Max's daughter, Sonya, a climate activist. Realizing the FBI is concentrating its manpower on preventing more deaths and not on finding Sonya, Max and his friends determine to rescue Sonya. Well-drawn characters match skillfully planted clues, and readers will enjoy the protestors' parodies derived from popular Broadway shows. Alpert should win new fans with this one.
