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Overview
Henry Lightstone, Fish and Wildlife Department undercover expert, and his crack team of wildlife agents are back in business on the cutting edge of environmental protection. Running a covert investigation, Lightstone stumbles across the activities of a vicious professional assassin and discovers a link to an old nemesis: the ICER Committee, a ruthless junta of international industrialists and financiers bent on destroying the environmental movement through violence and terror.Henry Lightstone, Fish & Wildlife Department undercover expert and his team are back in business fighting their nemesis--the ICER Committee, ruthless industrialists bent on destroying the environment. Only this time, there's a new threat on the field--WILDFIRE, an extremist organization set on purifying our society by fire, and run by a ferocious femme fatale.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Somebody wants to start vast wildfires in Yellowstone and Sequoia National Parks in this overblown environmental action thriller, a sequel to Goddard's Prey. Featured again is Special Agent Henry Lightstone, a Dirty Harry clone who, formerly undercover with the San Diego Police, now works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department. Lightstone faces assorted adversaries, including ICER, the gang of international industrialists behind the bad guys in the earlier book; the Wildfire Conspiracy, which plans to torch the parks; and the ultraradical Earth-First! movement, which ICER means to destroy by setting it against the Wildfire Conspiracy. The Wildfire Conspiracy, hiring an assassin whose killing blows are too fast for the human eye to follow and whose double-barreled rifle has bores fit for cannon rounds, aims to take out Lightstone's crew as well. Goddard keeps a big stewpot boiling, even recycling the plot of his earlier novel in an overlong courtroom rehash. Can Lightstone stop ``the complete destruction-and ultimate resurrection-of the earth by fire,'' which Wildfire hopes to carry out? Resembling both a weapons catalogue and an oversized comic strip, the tale has a blow-'em-all-to-hell kind of liveliness. (Nov.)Clive Cussler
"Goddard has a keen sense of how to hold the reader."Kirkus reviews
"Ken Goddard is a 'Field and Stream' Tom Clancy."Publishers Weekly
". . . keeps a big stewpot boiling . . . has a blow-'em-all-to-hell kind of liveliness."Tampa Tribune
"WILDFIRE is an afterburner of a thriller, an incandescent torch that burns up the pages in a flurry of action and speed."- Tampa Tribune
Tom Perry
"Goddard nicely combines our instinctive fear of things glimpsed at the corner of the eye with the mind's rational habit of assembling evidence..."Book Details
Published
October 1, 1995
Publisher
Tor Books
Pages
460
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780812523027