“And her information is bad,” Kenner says. Through a series of conversations between action scenes in the book, Kenner tries to educate each new member of their team, criticizing their beliefs and the hypocritical actions regarding the environment. John Kenner, a professor at MIT and an enigmatic man who gives off the typical TV secret agent vibes with his more than satisfying credentials and succinct sentences (unless it’s about global warming of course, he opposes it). As those on the side of the environment turn out to be the bad guys, it’s obvious Crichton isn’t trying to protect the integrity of environmental organizations.Īs the plot continues, the antagonists turn out to be a group of eco-terrorists, purposely causing environmental dissonance to get more people to care about global warming. Nick Drake, the head of NERF, is shown as a man who exploits the environment for money and claims “recycled” when the posters look better on fresh paper. However, as Evans goes to take a tour of their offices, it becomes apparent that NERF isn’t all what they claim to be, and as a result, it reveals Crichton’s true feelings about the “global warming theory.” Starting with the uncertainties NERF tries to educate Evans on, the book progresses to longer attacks on environmentalists and the science behind global warming. on behalf of the island nation of Vanuatu, for damages from rising sea levels, a side effect of global warming. Morton funds the National Environmental Research Fund (suspiciously abbreviated to NERF), which is suing the U.S. Peter Evans is introduced as the main character, a lawyer in Los Angeles whose primary client is the multi-millionaire philanthropist George Morton. The first part of the book, in effect, is engaging in a classic, intriguing-yet-dissatisfying manner.
These antagonists seem to have an uncanny plan to bring a series of devastation to the world through various environmental phenomena, and operate under a cloud of havoc the reader cannot yet make sense of. The book begins in a true Crichton-esque style, with a bunch of bad-guy, intelligent scientists seeking to obtain extremely specialized equipment at whatever cost necessary - hypersonic cavitation generators, shaped explosives or wire-guided projectiles - which then most certainly leads to someone’s death. Michael Crichton, a successful film director, doctor, an Oscar, Emmy, Edgar and Peabody award winner, as well as the author of thrillers such as “The Andromeda Strain,” “Sphere” and the renowned book “Jurassic Park,” programmer, teacher, adventurer, visionary (according to his website) and a 6-foot 9-inch tall giant, is also the author of “State of Fear,” a controversial story discrediting global warming and expressing Crichton’s opposition to environmentalists.
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