Burning the Apostle - Hardcover

Granger, Bill

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ISBN 10: 0446516937 ISBN 13: 9780446516938

Publisher: Warner Books, 1993

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Six years after Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown, a violence-prone environmentalist group with government ties secretly plans a second such disaster, and only the November Man can stop them

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About the Author:

Bill Granger was an award-winning journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and United Press International. His first novel, Public Murders, based on his reporting experiences, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His highly praised November Man series has been adapted for the screen, starring Pierce Brosnan as agent Devereaux.

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With their eerily plausible plots and intriguingly complex protagonist, Granger's November Man novels featuring intelligence operative Devereaux rank among the finest examples of espionage fiction. This 13th adventure (after The Last Good German ) is a disappointment, however. Chief among the novel's conceptual flaws is a lack of real evil in the novel's many villains, who include an eco-terrorist socialite, a feckless U.S. senator and a Clark Clifford-like power broker. None seems wicked enough to carry out the plot--to cause a major nuclear disaster near Chicago in order to discredit the nuclear-power industry. The desultory way in which Granger brings Devereaux into the action (the PI stumbles onto the conspiracy while trying to avenge the deaths of agents in Lebanon) weakens the narrative, as do stylistic tics such as ending virtually every chapter with a portentous sentence or paragraph. In the end, little seems contemporary here (despite echoes of the BCCI scandal); the threat of an American Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster that could kill thousands, even millions, of innocent people should generate more drama and tension than it does in this uninvolving presentation.
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