Daisy Field, an idealistic environmental journalist, does her best to fight the world's most powerful agrochemical corporation, which will go to any length to cover up its role in the death of a rock star's wife
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An English environmental activist teams up with an immensely wealthy rock star to prove that a new pesticide is by no means as benign as its maker would have the world believe. Francis's immense skill as a storyteller (Wolf Winter, 1988; Night Sky, 1984) steers her thriller firmly away from the usual ecohysteria. A rush crop-dusting job, an overworked pilot, poor maintenance, a sticky valve, and a sneaky new pesticide come together in the skies over the vast, isolated, Scottish holdings of a middle-aged rock star who's so much like Paul McCartney there's no point in imagining anyone else in the role. The misplaced pesticide settles on the rock star's pregnant wife, who begins a slow and painful death that, since there were no witnesses to the disaster, is blamed on a harmless wood preservative she'd been using. Into the life of the grieving musician comes Daisy Field, an exceptionally attractive lawyer who's now working full-time for an environmental action organization. Ms. Field has been digging into the cases of some much less famous people who've succumbed to the same symptoms as the musician's wife. Daisy narrows the suspect insecticides down to Silveron, a new product about to go on the market in the UK. Of course, Silveron's manufacturer has no intention of letting Daisy interfere with the success of the lovely new chemical, and her detective work is brutally blocked at every turn. Daisy's budding romance with the musician founders when her shakily documented case crashes. But all's not lost. An American scientist has some important evidence that, if the man will just stiffen his backbone, may help, and the pilot who started the mess, if he can be found, may clear up some crucial points. Ms. Field persists. Thoroughly readable. Daisy is the perfect heroine, and for once there is none of the pious, windy self-righteousness and sermonizing that are the usual curse of eco-thrillers. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Francis's latest thriller (after Night Sky ) invokes the specter of environmental pollution. In a leisurely plot that takes some time to catch fire but eventually keeps the reader riveted to the page, an earnest young British lawyer, Daisy Field, who works for a group that campaigns against toxic chemicals, learns how far a greedy U.S. company is willing to go to prevent her from exposing the nasty side-effects (leading to a lingering, painful death) of their profitable agrochemical, Silveron. One of the pesticide's victims is the wife of rock star Nick MacKenzie; he later funds a lab Daisy has set up to gather information on Silveron, but their tentative romance is dashed when Daisy seems to have erred in her research and when politically correct Nick discovers that she is using animals as research subjects. Meanwhile, the suspense grows as Daisy comes under increasing danger from a smarmy thug employed by the ruthless company. This contemporary twist on the little guy triumphing over larger, wealthier evildoers is a bit overlong, but Francis develops her plot expertly and brings the characters together for a bravura finish.
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