The Luxus - Hardcover

Mykel, A. W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312058934 ISBN 13: 9780312058937

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Intelligence agent Michael Quinn's search for the ruthless terrorist who has stolen a genetic strain capable of consuming the world's oil supply pits him against druglords, gamblers, and arms dealers

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Terrorists kidnap bacteria capable of eating all the oil in the world--in the latest superthriller from Mykel (The Windchime Legacy, 1980; The Salamandra Glass, 1983). Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. World-class billionaire maverick American industrialist Asher Sky--a swashbuckling Armand Hammer wannabe--located his supersecret Skyco research lab in the thick of the Colombian jungle, where it would be safe from the officious meddling of the FDA. Alas, the lab wasn't safe from the bloodthirsty meddling of world-class terrorist Rafael Sonterra, who has engineered the heist of Skyco's latest, hottest products of genetic manipulation: several new strains of miracle microorganisms capable of either freeing all the oil trapped in all the shale in the world, eating all the oil in all the oil reserves in the world, or eating all the oil-eating or oil- freeing microorganisms in order to stop them dead in their tracks. Whoever controls the little critters pretty much controls the universe. Skyco contracts with Intel-Trace--a private sector security outfit that's more clever and more flexible than any government agency--to find the terrorists and bring back the bugs; Intel-Trace puts their best man, Mike Quinn, on the job; and Quinn (with only a few pauses to appreciate the charms of Asher Sky's pretty daughter) conducts a super-high-tech, world-circling search for Rafael Sonterra, whose true identity shocks everybody except the reader, before Sonterra puts the bad bugs to work. Humorless, gadget-plagued, and very long. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Attempting to develop an organism that will extract oil from the deepest, hardest-to-reach areas of the Earth, multimillion-dollar international corporation Skyco has instead created the Luxus, an organism that will consume any oil it is exposed to. The Luxus samples are stolen by a mysterious terrorist known as Santerro, and offered to the highest bidder. However, once the bids are lodged and the monies transferred, Santerro and the Luxus disappear again. Skyco hires renegade security agent Michael Quinn to recover the samples before they can be unleashed on the world's oil fields. A budding romance between Michael and Skyco president Alexandra Sky complicates matters when Alex is kidnapped; Michael and Santerro find themselves evenly matched, each driven by high ideals, hatred, and a desire for revenge. Intricate plotting and backgrounds for the characters, along with plenty of action, make this an exciting international thriller by the author of The Salamandra Glass (LJ 7/83).
- A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington,
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312058934
• ISBN 13: 9780312058937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442