Water, Inc.
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Water, Inc.
A fast-paced eco-thriller of thwarted water privatization:Chinatown for the twenty-first century.A private American consortium of corporate owners aims to pipe and ship water from northern Quebec to the US. Congressmen, state governors and a federal administration hostile to Canada ride shotgun for them, aided by a brilliant, existentially torn Quebec deputy minister and a cutthroat minister of finance. They're resisted by a whistle-blowing executive, the director of a major US environmental organization, a group of Quebec ecologists, a feisty British journalist, three rogue policemen, a reluctant eco-terrorist and a maverick Vermont governor hated by the consortium and the White House.In an era during which water scarcity—one of the major problems of the twenty-first century, according to the UN—becomes a very real proposition for much of the world,Water, Inc. is an exquisitely timely political thriller. With action sprawling across urban and rural America, into the cities and beautiful wilderness of Quebec, and as far as Mexico, Lisbon, London and Brussels, it is a story of greed, heroism, clashing loyalties, love, hate and mortal risk.
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The Black Angel
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The Black Angel
Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.
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Bad Men
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Bad Men
Dutch Island, Maine, is quite literally haunted by the massacre of its inhabitants, an event that occurred over 300 years ago. A gang of thugs invades Dutch Island in the present day in search of their leader Moloch's abused wife, Marianne, who fled to the island after stealing her husband's money. Marianne will find protectors in both Melancholy Joe Dupree, the island's police officer--who, like her husband, has some strange link to the island's bloody past--and the angry ghosts of the slaughtered settlers who will not permit further violence on the island.
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The Honorary Consul
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The Honorary Consul
When Charlie Fortnum, an Englishman who acts as Honorary Consul to the British subjects of a small town in Argentina, is kidnapped by Marxist guerillas, a chain of events is set in motion that draws both apathetic and committed bystanders into a confrontation with the forces of authority. Leon Rivas, a renegade priest, joins the guerillas and is ultimately ordered to kill Fortnum; Eduardo Parr, a Buenos Aires physician who seduces Fortnum's wife early in the story, becomes obsessed with saving him. Fortnum himself becomes a hapless pawn of circumstance when it becomes clear that the British Crown considers him not worth the ransom. Written with Greene's characteristic eye for squalor and decay, THE HONORARY CONSUL is a gripping and moving tale.
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