This book sets off with a great start, as a young physicist is seduced by a beautiful women with a keen interest in his research in waves – and then murders him.
Sadly, a lot of the rest of the book fails to live up to that promising start. Who is the main character? Initially it seems that it will be George Morton, the environmental philanthropist, but he goes missing, presumed dead. Will it be Sarah his beautiful, gifted assistant? Or Peter Evans his lawyer? Not really, they are part of the narrative for sure, but seem to be riding the wave of the story rather than being central to it. Neither becomes a compelling reason to keep reading, rooting for that character – neither is shown with much depth of feeling.
Ostensibly, this book is concerned with Climate Change, and with Crichton’s usual style of making his work of fiction seem like a documentary, this book is in my view highly controversial. He seems to be a climate change denier, and his characters make strong arguments against any evidence of climate change throughout the book. Writing this from England in the midst of another record-breaking heatwave, hotter and longer than last year’s record-breaking heatwaves, I have to disagree with him.
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