space
Reader Reviews | |
Review by Chrissi (010702) Rating (8/10) Review
by Chrissi Not long after starting the paperwork for Dean Belden, he asks her to attend a Federal Grand Jury hearing with him as his attorney. She flies with him, but when his turn comes to be called, he has vanished, so Joss catches a taxi back to the harbour where he landed his flying boat, arriving just in time to see him get on board and be blown to smithereens by a bomb. This puts Joss in a bit of a difficult position, when she finds that he was possibly a dealer in things that he should not have dealt in. Meanwhile, Gideon van Ry who is working on a record of all of the fissionable items maintained and left over at the end of the cold war, finds that two atomic bombs are missing from a Russian silo. These, he suspects have been taken out of the country for some unknown purpose. He starts to track them. The path of the bombs leads Gideon to Joss, via Belden, and he finds her in a state of shock, having had a rather nasty attempt on her life. Pooling their resources, they track Gideon, trying to find the bombs before they can be used. This
is one of those books which brings to life those horror stories
about the fate of lots of deadly stuff after the collapse of the
Soviet military machine, added to a bunch of nasty men who bear
grudges, you can have a very nasty situation. The actual plotting
of this is ingenious, with a healthy dollop of irony when you
consider how they hide the actual bomb, although Martini has held
back no punches when describing the side effects of radiation
poisoning, with the horrible death resulting from something that
you can neither see nor feel. |
|
Column Ends |
space