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Storm front
Second Impression. Rare Vintage, collectible - An unsuspecting truck driver travels cross country, never realizing his cargo contains a thermos of lethal botulism toxin. After a detour in Montana, Carl tries to make time by taking a shortcut but a terrible accident hurls the truck into a canyon and spills the deadly cargo. Only the good buddies on channel 19 can save the nation from full-scale disaster.
223 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1977
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December 20, 2016
This could be one of the worst books I have ever read. The description on the cove is 100% misleading. It says..."Unscrew the lid- and watch America die! The nightmare shock-thriller about the unnatural disaster." What a load of CRAP. This is a trucking, gear-jamming story with a touch of disaster thrown in as an after thought.
For the first 100+ pages of this 215 page novel, all we get is an encyclopedia of trucker slang. There is a 20 year old kid who gets headaches. A wheel chair bound CB enthusiast who plays chess with a guy twice a week. We get to hear a lot about chess, CB rigs and all the gears in an eighteen wheeler. There is only about a dozen pages that talk about the toxin in question.
There is no disaster. There is no tension. There is no thrill ride. The book also wraps up very fast. ( This was the only thing I liked about it. I WAS DONE. ) It's like the author ran out of trucking jargon and had to write about what the book was suppose to be about and fails miserably.
I will never read anything by Phillip Finch again! The book I have is a paperback. But it says it was originally published in hardcover as "Storm Front" Who in the hell would waste good trees to print this once, not to mention repress it in paperback!
For the first 100+ pages of this 215 page novel, all we get is an encyclopedia of trucker slang. There is a 20 year old kid who gets headaches. A wheel chair bound CB enthusiast who plays chess with a guy twice a week. We get to hear a lot about chess, CB rigs and all the gears in an eighteen wheeler. There is only about a dozen pages that talk about the toxin in question.
There is no disaster. There is no tension. There is no thrill ride. The book also wraps up very fast. ( This was the only thing I liked about it. I WAS DONE. ) It's like the author ran out of trucking jargon and had to write about what the book was suppose to be about and fails miserably.
I will never read anything by Phillip Finch again! The book I have is a paperback. But it says it was originally published in hardcover as "Storm Front" Who in the hell would waste good trees to print this once, not to mention repress it in paperback!
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