Two centuries after the
Boston Tea Party, harbour dumping is still a favourite local sport,
only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the
water.
Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangaman
Taylor is Boston's modern -day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a
40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly
telegenic ways is the perfect method of making enemies, and Taylor has a
collection that would do any rabble-rouser proud.After his latest
exploit, he's wanted by the FBI, possibly by the Mafia, and definitely
by a group of Satanist angel-dust heads who think he's looking for a PCP
factory, not PCB contamination.
Pretty soon dodging bullets is
the least of Taylor's problems - because somewhere out there are an
unhinged genetic engineer and a lab-concocted bacterium that could
destroy all ocean life and that's just for appetizers.Frightening,
funny, fast and furious, Zodiac is thrilling speculative fiction torn
straight from today's headlines.
Description:
Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbour dumping is still a favourite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water.Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangaman Taylor is Boston's modern -day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly telegenic ways is the perfect method of making enemies, and Taylor has a collection that would do any rabble-rouser proud.After his latest exploit, he's wanted by the FBI, possibly by the Mafia, and definitely by a group of Satanist angel-dust heads who think he's looking for a PCP factory, not PCB contamination.
Pretty soon dodging bullets is the least of Taylor's problems - because somewhere out there are an unhinged genetic engineer and a lab-concocted bacterium that could destroy all ocean life and that's just for appetizers.Frightening, funny, fast and furious, Zodiac is thrilling speculative fiction torn straight from today's headlines.