Politics & Social Issues - Fiction, Thrillers, War & Military Fiction, Police Stories
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Overview
A top-secret project created by a renegade Pentagon unit has loosed a terrifying new weapon, and only two people can prevent a shift in the global balance of power and the deaths of millions. NASA senior investigator Linda Franklin is sent in to inspect a crash site, only to discover the wreckage of a plane that doesn't exist. She has unwittingly stumbled onto a high-level conspiracy that has already killed other interlopers and is now coming after her. Soon she realizes she holds evidence of a Pentagon plan called "World Order," a plan to use a horrible biochemical weapon that shouldn't exist, one developed by the Pentagon but used by Saddam Hussein against American soldiers in the Gulf War. As she frantically searches for help in uncovering the project's secrets, everyone she contacts either disappears without a trace or ends up dead. She is completely alone until one man, John Peterson, joins her. Together they are thrown into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a ruthless group of conspirators out to destroy the global balance of economic power - and anyone who gets in their way.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
A conventional woman-on-the-run-from-mysterious-forces plot gains new levels of obscurity in Goliszek's Rivers of the Black Moon turgid tale of high-level biowarfare coverups. Widowed NASA molecular biologist Linda Jackson is suspicious when the investigation of a mysterious plane crash is suddenly closed. After her boss is murdered, Linda and her husband's friend John Peterson undertake their own investigation. Soon, the two sleuths are off to Malaysia, where they break into a secret biochemical installation while various charactersthe president, a fanatical Army general, a group of military-industrial plutocrats calling themselves the Vanguarddeliver arias about downsizing, drugs, international unrest, NAFTA, GATT and other threats to America. Although these events occur in the spring of 1996, there's hardly any mention of the upcoming election. The writing is pedestrian at best, and the murky plot and plethora of scientific jargon will muddle most readers, who might profit by first reading the afterword. In it, Goliszek offers apparently heartfelt theories about "psychochemical warfare," government secrecy and Gulf War Syndromeincluding his contention that America gave Iraq its germ warfare technology and knowingly gave U.S. troops ineffective gas masks. Appendix not seen by PW. Mar.Book Details
Published
February 1, 1998
Publisher
Forge
Pages
376
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312859084