Poisoned Sky (A David Morton thriller)

ISBN: 0751517577

Author: Thomas, Gordon

Condition: Used

Operative David Morton accompanies the US president on an anti-pollution campaign in an effort to infiltrate and foil an international conspiracy.

The worlds getting smaller by the minute.

In a remote corner of East Anglia six nuclear trigger mechanisms are stolen from a maximum security bunker. A few hours later the crew of a racing balloon are rescued from the North Sea.

In Moscow, a former Soviet research scientist is seen leaving a mortuary in the dead of night. At the time of his disappearance, Sergei Mikhailovich Bodor was rumored to have been investigating the effect of the ozone layers destruction on the development of military hardware until the collapse of communism made his work obsolete.

In Washington the President of the United States unveils his vision of a worldwide environmental program, Operation Earth Saver, having finally won over the support of most of the major western leaders. To educate the developing nations of its merits, he is preparing to use the futuristic presidential airliner, Air Force one, as the traveling venue for the unique global conference tour.

In the world headquarters of the multi-portfolio industrial conglomerate Meridian International, its own president Ignatius Bailey believes in a very different kind of survival

Poisoned Sky portrays a world almost too close to our own, shrunk by the most sophisticated of intelligence networks and ravaged by the industrial pollution, but a world in which individuals still have the power to change its future. One, David Morton, operations head of the first world anti-terrorist organization, is entrusted with the ultimate responsibility - not just the safety of the world leaders on board Air Force One, but the untangling of an ever-more terrifying global conspiracy, whose sheer scale has fatal implications for the environmental stability of the planet.