Harry

by Tim Wohlforth

A rusted, dented, dirty-white Toyota passes under a streetlight in a small town in Southern Oregon. A hulk of a man exits, leans on a cane and walks crab-like down the sidewalk toward Ted Whitaker. It's Harry, his best friend in the Sixties, a man Whitaker hasn't seen in thirty years. What does he want from him? For surely this meeting has a purpose. Whitaker soon discovers that Harry, once an extreme radical, has become an eco-anarchist and terrorist. He seeks to recruit Whitaker to join his plot to release a virulent form of smallpox with no known antidote. Whitaker must stop Harry.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2010

Reviews

[Carole T. Beers · Rating 5 out of 5]

A chilling, swiftly paced novel in which an old intellectual-radical, now living peacefully in Ashland rather than Berkeley, must stop a crazed environmental activist he knows from unleashing a plague that could destroy much of the world. What an exciting premise, what an engaging hero. The action is nonstop, the writing, wonderful.