Russian Terrorist novel
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FROM: Kraleen Smith <[removed]@nmls.lib.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/30/02, 3:32 PM
FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/1/02, 3:08 PM
Booklist Review: In Cook's twenty-first novel,
the People's Aryan Army (PAA) is planning a major
terrorist attack against a big government
building in New York, hoping that that will spark
nationwide revolution. PAA founder Curt recruits
immigrant Russian technician Yuri to prepare
bioweapons for the attack. Yuri sets up a
basement lab to produce anthrax, and a package
"bomb" becomes the vector for the anthrax when
Yuri tries it out on a Greek rug dealer. Desiring
proof of the merchant's death, Yuri meets Jack
Stapleton from the medical examiner's office, and
Jack's sidekick, Laurie, gets involved. Seasoned
with plenty of startling incidents--a government
plant in the PAA is crucified, Yuri tries out his
botulinum toxin weapon on his wife, Jack's
pick-up basketball chums save his life a couple
times--the
plot cooks right along. The terrorist attack
works, but Yuri has double-crossed the PAA,
and nobody dies. Vector is Cook at his best,
providing both thrills and an urgent message. In
an endnote, Cook suggests that the story was
written in an effort to alert U.S. organizations
and individuals to the likelihood of bioweapon
terrorism.
David Wright
Seattle Public library
--- Kraleen Smith <[removed]@nmls.lib.tx.us> wrote:
> I have a patron looking for a book she read
> just before 9/11 about
> Russian terrorists who were plotting to use
> nerve gas in a building in
> New York. She remembers there were punk rogue
> firefighters involved and
> a New York Police Detective saves the day at
> the end. Does anyone have
> any ideas?
>
>
>
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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/1/02, 5:49 PM
Booklist Review: In Cook's twenty-first novel,
the People's Aryan Army (PAA) is planning a major
terrorist attack against a big government
building in New York, hoping that that will spark
nationwide revolution. PAA founder Curt recruits
immigrant Russian technician Yuri to prepare
bioweapons for the attack. Yuri sets up a
basement lab to produce anthrax, and a package
"bomb" becomes the vector for the anthrax when
Yuri tries it out on a Greek rug dealer. Desiring
proof of the merchant's death, Yuri meets Jack
Stapleton from the medical examiner's office, and
Jack's sidekick, Laurie, gets involved. Seasoned
with plenty of startling incidents--a government
plant in the PAA is crucified, Yuri tries out his
botulinum toxin weapon on his wife, Jack's
pick-up basketball chums save his life a couple
times--the plot cooks right along. The terrorist
attack works, but Yuri has double-crossed the
PAA,
and nobody dies. Vector is Cook at his best,
providing both thrills and an urgent message. In
an endnote, Cook suggests that the story was
written in an effort to alert U.S. organizations
and individuals to the likelihood of bioweapon
terrorism.
David Wright
Seattle Public library
--- Kraleen Smith <[removed]@nmls.lib.tx.us> wrote:
> I have a patron looking for a book she read
> just before 9/11 about
> Russian terrorists who were plotting to use
> nerve gas in a building in
> New York. She remembers there were punk rogue
> firefighters involved and
> a New York Police Detective saves the day at
> the end. Does anyone have
> any ideas?
>
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the
> archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
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FROM: <[removed]@nmls.lib.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/9/02, 10:18 AM
Kraleen Smith
-----Original Message-----
From: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:02:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Russian Terrorist novel
> Perhaps VECTOR, by Robin Cook. Here's the
> Booklist Review:
>
> Booklist Review: In Cook's twenty-first novel,
> the People's Aryan Army (PAA) is planning a major
> terrorist attack against a big government
> building in New York, hoping that that will spark
> nationwide revolution. PAA founder Curt recruits
> immigrant Russian technician Yuri to prepare
> bioweapons for the attack. Yuri sets up a
> basement lab to produce anthrax, and a package
> "bomb" becomes the vector for the anthrax when
> Yuri tries it out on a Greek rug dealer. Desiring
> proof of the merchant's death, Yuri meets Jack
> Stapleton from the medical examiner's office, and
> Jack's sidekick, Laurie, gets involved. Seasoned
> with plenty of startling incidents--a government
> plant in the PAA is crucified, Yuri tries out his
> botulinum toxin weapon on his wife, Jack's
> pick-up basketball chums save his life a couple
> times--the
> plot cooks right along. The terrorist attack
> works, but Yuri has double-crossed the PAA,
> and nobody dies. Vector is Cook at his best,
> providing both thrills and an urgent message. In
> an endnote, Cook suggests that the story was
> written in an effort to alert U.S. organizations
> and individuals to the likelihood of bioweapon
> terrorism.
>
> David Wright
> Seattle Public library
>
> --- Kraleen Smith <[removed]@nmls.lib.tx.us> wrote:
> > I have a patron looking for a book she read
> > just before 9/11 about
> > Russian terrorists who were plotting to use
> > nerve gas in a building in
> > New York. She remembers there were punk rogue
> > firefighters involved and
> > a New York Police Detective saves the day at
> > the end. Does anyone have
> > any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> ......................................................................
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> > archives?
> > Everything Fiction_L:
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>
>
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> David Wright Seattle Public Library
>
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