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A feisty heroine, a stalwart hero, two enemy groups of ancient origin, appropriate deaths for nature's despoilers, world-wide canvas and pointed reminders of Earth's fragility should add up to commercial success. But in Morrell's thriller the ingredients don't produce a satisfying dish.
Author Notes
David Morrell, an award-winning Canadian writer of horror fiction, was born in 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at the University of Waterloo and earned his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Morrell is best known as the creator of John Rambo, the hero of his first novel, First Blood. The novel was adapted for screen and starred Sylvester Stallone. Although Morrell was not happy with the depiction of the Rambo character in the movie, he did write several sequels to First Blood and two further scripts for the sequels to the original movie. He also wrote a number of other books including The Brotherhood of the Rose which became a best seller in 1984.
David Morrell has written one scholarly work, John Barth: An Introduction, published by Pennsylvania State University in 1977 and has taught at the University of Iowa. He now lives in the United States with his wife and daughter (another child, a son, is deceased).
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Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Fatal attacks on polluters around the world are investigated by a writer and an NYPD lieutenant. By this environmental thriller's bloody climax, readers will be thoroughly tired of its padding and cardboard characters. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Watch out for those guys with the gray eyes: Their ashen orbs mark them as pagan eco-terrorists--and as the villains of this achingly silly but super-swift addition to Morrell's popular conspiracy-thriller series (The Fifth Profession, etc.). Tess Drake--a reporter late of Washington, D.C., high society--is smitten when she meets gray-eyed hunk ""Joseph"" outside her office at N.Y.C.'s Earth Mother magazine. Her infatuation deepens on their first date as she learns that Joseph is a nature-loving vegetarian like herself: so what if he glances furtively around him and swears by platonic love alone? So when he stands her up their next date, Tess turns to burly cop William Craig, who wraps his arms around her after she identifies Joseph's charred body in the morgue. Who set Joseph on fire? Was it the group of gray-eyes who begin to chase Tess after she and Craig locate Joseph's secret apartment and its grisly altar? Or was it the equally grim men also tracking Tess, who speak of their ""mission"" to eradicate the gray-eyed ""vermin""? And is one of these groups responsible for the recent global rash of eco-terrorism? Flying to D.C. for answers, Tess visits her ancestral home, only to see it set aflame by the gray-eyes, who kill her mom. Rescued by the hunters of the gray-eyes from a subsequent attack, she learns that the hunters are priest/assassins, remnants of the Inquisition, while the gray-eyes are chaste, blood-related worshippers of the ancient sun-god Mithras, dedicated to ecology through violence: Joseph was a Mithran defector, appalled by the sect's bloody acts. But who can save Tess from the gray-eyes? Her old pal the Vice-President? With Craig in tow, she flies with the V.P. on Air Force Two to Spain--but unbeknownst to her, the V.P. It's hard to believe that the author of the brooding thrillers First Blood and The Totem fashioned this literary vacuum, devoid of most anything except windy action but at such a high velocity as to perhaps justify the 100,000 first printing. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Reporter Tess Blake finds herself embroiled in the battle between ancient enemies who practice arcane pagan rituals.