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BLACK MONDAY
by R. Scott Reiss
Simon & Schuster, February 2007
352 pages
$25.00
ISBN: 0743297644


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Lewis Stokes stalks and kills Bobby Grady in a Las Vegas hotel. Stokes becomes Clayton Cox and moves on, killing more people and leaving false clues as to whodunit.

In Qatar, the executive producer of Al-Jazeera's weekly news program is also a CIA mole. He has told the CIA of a segment to be broadcast that day in which a holy man in the mountains of Pakistan warns the world of the destruction of the west by November 1. Then five airplanes crash in one day. All had laid over in Riyadh.

Dr Greg Gillette is an epidemiologist with the US Government, living in a suburb of Washington DC. A plane crashes in his neighborhood and he does what he can until a call comes in from the Pentagon calling him to duty. He learns that machines are failing all over the world.

Greg wants to treat this as an epidemic, but his immediate superior at the Pentagon is more interested in covering his own ass than finding the cause of the problem. Gillette is shunted into a different department while homeland security uses all available resources to follow the false trails laid down by Stokes/Cox.

It is determined that the fuel supplies are contaminated with what appears to be a bacterium, which can withstand the heat and pressure of refining. As winter approaches, the shortages of fuel and food become more serious.

In 1972 Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis wrote a book called MUTANT 59: THE PLASTIC EATERS which set down a similar premise – what would happen if a bacterium started eating plastic. That scenario would be even more frightening today, since now even automobile bodies are made of plastic. Can you imagine what would happen if almost all fuel was contaminated and nothing that used petroleum would work? How would you and your neighbors respond?

Reiss is a screenwriter and BLACK MONDAY has already been optioned for a film. It is a techno-thriller that moves quickly and even though we know the good guys will win, we keep reading to find out how.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, January 2007

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