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The Leviathan Effect

James Lilliefors

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English
Soho Press Inc
22 April 2014
Homeland Security Secretary Catherine Blaine receives a frightening communication from a hacker identified only by the pseudonym Janus. The message is the latest in a series correctly predicting natural disasters around the world-disasters that, Janus claims, were manufactured, not natural at all. And, according to the email, unless the United States does as Janus instructs, another disaster is coming-a Category 5 hurricane that will hit the Eastern Seaboard and destroy the lives of tens of millions of people.

Unaware of the crisis in Washington, investigative journalist Jon Mallory stumbles on a list of seven prominent scientists who have been murdered over the past dozen years. When the person who gave him the list disappears herself, Jon realizes he has unwittingly become part of a deadly chain of events and contacts his brother, private intelligence contractor Charles, for help. Meanwhile, Catherine Blaine has also come to Charles for help tracking down the hacker Janus and uncovering the frightening new weather technology that threatens the world.
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Imprint:   Soho Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   260g
ISBN:   9781616953621
ISBN 10:   1616953624
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

James Lilliefors is an award-winning journalist who has written for The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun and elsewhere. He was educated at the University of Iowa and the University ofVirginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fiction Writing Fellow. He currently lives in Florida.

Reviews for The Leviathan Effect

Praise for The Leviathan Effect Scary as heck. And entirely too plausible. ─San Jose Mercury News Weather geeks, rejoice. This one is for you. ─ Fort Worth Star-Telegram A treat for my fellow weather junkies: a thriller that takes the Day After Tomorrow concept of accelerated weather disasters a bit further. [Lilliefors] gets good marks for an intriguing story idea. ─ The Charlotte Observer Gripping.... Plotlines converge intriguingly under Lilliefors' brisk handling...Lilliefors has obviously done a fair amount of research - and he's come to some stark conclusions. ─ Open Letters Monthly Drawing on actual government experiments and projects, award-winning journalist Lilliefors convincingly sells the tale of natural disaster modification in the hands of a Russian mobster out to blackmail the U.S. government.... [A] suspenseful book with believable action and interesting science that will captivate weather buffs and fans of bioterrorism plots. ─ Library Journal [R]eads like a gathering storm -- which is, of course, the chief protagonist/antagonist throughout these pages ... [The book has] an immediate visual quality that shouts 'Make a Bruce Willis movie out of me.' ─The Advocate With THE LEVIATHAN EFFECT, [Lilliefors] has kicked it up several notches and created one of the best thrillers in years. Michael Crichton would be proud of how deftly he mixes science with suspense. ─BookReporter.com James Lilliefors succeeded in getting my attention with his first thriller, VIRAL.... His second thriller, THE LEVIATHAN EFFECT, is also grounded in the known--our weather--and uses nature's deadly disasters as a controlled means to terrorize the world. ─The Big Thrill The Mallory brothers appeared in the author's previous work, VIRAL, and it is possible that we will meet them again. Let us hope that Lilliefors wil


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