Stephenson, Neal: ZODIAC

Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbor dumping is still a favorite local sport, only this time it´s major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmetalist and professional pain in the ass Sangamon Taylor is Boston´s modern-day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly telegenic ways is the perfec method of making enemies, and Taylor has a collection that would do any rabble-rouser proud.

After his latest exploit, he´s wanted by the FBI, possibly by the Mafia, and definitely by a group of Satanist angel-dust heads who think he´s looking for a PCP factory, not PCB contamination. Pretty soon dodging bullets is the least of Taylor´s problems - because somewhere out there are an unhinged genetic engineer and a lab-concocted bacterium that could destroy all ocean life...and that´s just for appetizers.

Frightening, funny, fast and furios, Zodiac is thrilling speculative fiction torn straight from today´s headlines.

AUTHOR:Neal Stephenson (Neal Town Stephenson)

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 308

LANGUAGE: english