the pompeii syndrome
it all started in Ennis.
Results 1 - 6 of about 9 English pages for “the pompeii syndrome“. [google track 16:49 06/02/2007]
its a new book by David Rice. as I run the blog for shut sellafield i was sent an advance copy..
Synopsis [amazon]
Father Frank Kane, filming a TV series on “Great Catastrophes in History”, grows convinced that people on the verge of extinction, as in Pompeii, consciously ignore all the signs of their impending doom. In Ireland, Garda Det-Sgt Stokes keeps encountering references to a shadowy figure called Omar. A young Saudi Arabian disappears from Ennis hospital, and later his body appears in a trawler’s fishing net. In Leeds, journalist Meg Watkins is assigned to research Freshpark Nuclear Plant in Cumbria. Initially impressed, she gradually grows horrified at its safety record. Meanwhile, Sheik Aboud is secretly training terrorist pilots to fly hijacked planes into Europe’s nuclear plants, using flight simulators at his walled County Galway residence. Gradually, Stokes closes in on the sheik as he feels some catastrophe is pending. So does Fr Frank Kane, for different reasons. And Meg Watkins is convinced that terrorists are going after Freshpark. Convergence comes when both Kane and Stokes hear Meg say on a TV talk-show that terrorists could hijack a plane out of Ireland and fly it into Freshpark. But it’s all too late. Omar has been in Co Galway all the time, as a respected citizen, and now does precisely what Meg had feared. The consequences are horrific…
the 3 books pictured are
Fearing Sellafield - colum kenny
A nuclear Ireland? - john carroll / petra kelly
the pompeii syndrome - david rice
March 7th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Very amusing little tale in the catastrophy genre but there are plently of better targets for the evil doers. Nice big chemical plants near centres of population why are you fixated on the Nuclear Industry?
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
i am am’nt i, fixated, on nuclear & i live in a population centre near a plant. biggest reprocessing plant on these isles.. chemical plants just don’t have the staying power of nuclear radiation for the plot of a book.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I have to say I have just finished this book and found it to be one of the worst plotted and written books I have ever read. Its one sided agenda, full of evil Brits cackling away, noble downtrodden Arabs, comedy culchie cops, crooked TD’s. I am also staggered to learn he spent 5 years researching it, he must have been spending 20 minutes a year doing it. Frankly, I thought it was more of a Republican wet dream than a serious attempt at exploring the issues of nuclear power. No mention of Irelands record as one of the three worst compliers with environmental legislation in Europe, the fact that most of its recycled waste is done by the “evil Brits”, the fact that Ireland is one of the 3 most energy import dependent economies in the developed world and it imports nuclear generated electricity, his own book and arguments are just as biased as the evil propaganda of “Brit-Atomic”! I could go on. I am sure that Mr Rice will soon return to his preferred writing medium for his next output, paper and crayon!