David Zeman

A nuclear missile takes out a cruise ship filled with high achieving students, a mystery virus spreads in several small towns, the vice president and is successor is infected by it, the third successor is killed in a hit and run. Meanwhile hard line right wing political opponent Colin Goss gains ground in the polls and the government slips, will new appointee Michael Campbell be a saviour that keeps the government in power and society safe? When he is named polls climb, suddenly his wife is abducted.

Meanwhile a reporter investigating the virus begins to think all may not be as it appears.

The novel is quite the page turner, set in the US it's got political manoeuvring, a touch of mystery and a dark shadow hovering over a potential future that darkens as the story unfolds.

Enjoyable, unfortunately seems to be the only book by the author however, else I'd be hunting the others down also.… (mais)

This is one of those books that has a great "blurb" for the back cover but then just never delivers. By the end, I really felt as if the author had several ideas and just decided to throw them all into a single pot, mix it up a bit and see if a story evolved. It didn't. Wooden characters marching through a story that just never seemed to catch on. Plus, there were way too many plot devices that served no real purpose other than satisfying the author's "gee whiz, this could be cool" notions. Also, the story had way too many "plot holes" where a reader can't help but think, "that doesn't make sense."… (mais)