Fatal Climate Book

Fatal Climate is that rare thing, a techno thriller that grabs you by both the mind and the guts--and manages to make you care about the characters as well. Watson is brought in as replacement Managing Director of a troubled computer firm whose founder is suddenly and messily dead after producing terrifying models of global climactic collapse. Watson's estranged wife Patty, a European civil servant, finds the ruling powers oddly unprepared to deal with predictions of a devastated Southern hemisphere. However, we know what they do not, the US president has already made up his mind what to do--kill each and every messenger. The suspense here has as much to do with the survival of the world as with the fate of a few people we come to care a lot about, but David Hood manages to make even the tracking and destruction of a computer virus as thrilling as a car chase or hand-to-hand combat. He is as at home in the boardrooms of America as he is in the long-houses of the typhoon-smashed Pacific island where his climax takes place; thrillers really can be informed as well as exciting. --Roz KaveneyRead More