The Last Albatross

by Ian Irvine

Overview

IS THERE LIFE AFTER GLOBAL WARMING?

The Third Edition (revised and updated) of Ian Irvine’s classic eco-thriller trilogy.

Hercus Barges, a middle-aged failure embittered about ruinous climate change, is planning the ultimate crime: the destruction of western civilisation. And he knows just how to do it. Hercus attempts to blackmail his old friend Ryn Hardey into helping him, for they share a terrible secret from their student days.

Ryn can't stop Hercus without implicating himself, but Hercus won't take no for an answer. And Ryn has another urgent problem. His research on Antarctic ice sheet melting is showing alarming results and he can't work out why.

Then Hercus' secret gets out, and it's worth a fortune to a doomsday ecological cult. Soon Ryn and his partner Jemma are on the run from ruthless eco-terrorists and professional hitmen. As Ryn struggles to work out what will happen when the ice melts, Jemma tries to uncover Hercus' catastrophic plan – before it's too late.

Global warming, unstoppable climate change and environmental terrorism collide in The Last Albatross – Book One in the shatteringly prophetic Human Rites trilogy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648187059
Publisher:	Santhenar Trust
Publication date:	04/04/2018
Series:	Human Rites Trilogy , #1
Edition description:	3rd Revised ed.
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Ian Irvine, an Australian marine scientist, has also written 32 novels and an anthology of shorter stories. His novels include the Three Worlds fantasy sequence (THE VIEW FROM THE MIRROR, THE WELL OF ECHOES, THE SONG OF THE TEARS and THE GATES OF GOOD AND EVIL), which has been published in many countries and translations and has sold over a million copies, a trilogy of eco-thrillers in a world of catastrophic climate change, HUMAN RITES, now in its third edition, and 13 novels for younger readers.

Editorial Reviews

"The action-packed plot of doomsday cults and planetary collapse isn't far from the truth." The Times

"A chilling suspense story set against a backdrop of 21st Century environmental depletion and cultural degeneration. Portrays a frighteningly plausible future." Library Journal.

"A well-crafted near-future eco-thriller." Roland Green, Booklist.

‘Irvine surpasses himself in his intricate portrayal of the impacts of climate change on people and the planet … impossible to put down.’ Sydney Morning Herald.

From the Publisher

Ryn and Jemma Hardey's lives change forever when Hercus Barges, once Ryn's best friend, recovers a piece of plutonium he stole as a university student and attempts to coerce the Hardeys into helping him save the world from humanity. The author of The View from the Mirror crafts a chilling sf suspense story set against a backdrop of 21st-century environmental depletion and cultural degeneration. First published in Australia, Irvine's latest novel, the first in a trilogy of eco-thrillers, portrays a frighteningly plausible near future and belongs in most sf collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Originally written in 2000, this is the first installment of an ecoterrorism trilogy set in Australia. The complicated fantasy, told from the point of view of a young woman named Jemma, is drawn from events in the 1950s, when the British tested atomic weapons in the Pacific. As the story begins, they have accidentally left behind some plutonium, which two boys, Ryn and Hercus, stumble upon and then bury so that it cannot be used for destructive purposes. Some years later, Jemma is settling down to a quiet life with Ryn when Hercus reappears. Disillusioned and bitter about the state of the world, he’s planning an act of ecoterrorism of global proportions. If Ryn doesn’t help him, Hercus threatens to reveal Ryn’s part in hiding the plutonium. The action never lets up as Saunders builds suspense over potential catastrophic events. As Jemma, he crafts a cool, calm persona that unravels bit by bit. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2020 - AudioFile