Critical Mass Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Steve Martini
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
136

Critical Mass by Steve Martini Book Summary

Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fisherman suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition that doctors cannot diagnose, and which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business in the islands. Within days Belden is subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Less than an hour after testifying, and before Joss can discover what happened in the secrecy of the grand jury room, Belden dies in a fiery explosion of his float plane on Seattle's Lake Union. Gideon Van Ry is a nuclear fission expert and a scholar in residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. One of his duties is to update the Center's database, an extensive catalog listing fissionable materials and weapons of mass destruction. Gideon is troubled by the apparent failure to account for two small tactical nuclear devices missing from a storage facility in the former Soviet Union.The two weapons were last seen in packing crates, to be shipped to an American company called Belden Electronics. Gideon has been unable to locate this firm, and now he is left with only one possible lead, the lawyer who incorporated the company-Jocelyn Cole. Fraught with tension and suspense, Critical Mass is Steve Martini at his electrifying best. It is the story of what can happen in a world where private hate and public apathy combine to uncork the sleeping but deadly genie of nuclear terror.

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Book Name Critical Mass
Genre Mysteries & Thrillers
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.67 MB

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Critical mass. Fast paced,grabs you from the first to last word! Couldn’t put down, so well crafted and ingenious plot.

Martini's biases. Martini knows how to weave a spell-binder much better than most, and with one exception, I enjoy his books. The exception is that he absolutely, fundamentally, irrevocably, cannot refrain from wearing his biases on his sleeve. It's his perfect right not to like either the government on the one hand or higher education on the other, but as I read further into his corpus (and I've completed the entire Paul Madriani series), I find myself having to scroll through an ever-growing number of paragraphs simply to avoid them. In Critical Mass, for instance, the book is barely getting started before the reader is assaulted with two adjacent awful errors. The first is the character who wants to become a college teacher. In the space of a few sentences -- and hence a few months at the most -- he moves from TA to professor and then is denied "a tenured position." *No one* moves from TA directly to assistant professor. No one. TA is a grad-student rank that would never be offered to, much less accepted by, a Ph.D. (I'm a university teacher.) The character then marries a woman who starts a book-keeping business and a family. Martini subjects us to several excruciating and false pages of narrative where her business is assaulted by the IRS at the cost of "millions of dollars" of IRS resources and no target data. All of this is premised on a business-ID error that a fourth-grader could have resolved, but Martini's anti-governmental bias is so radical that he can't admit that the IRS could have seen it. "The IRS doesn't make mistakes." Well yes, it does, but rarely so egregious as Martini's. The wife eventually takes her own life, which is close to what I felt like after these nauseating narratives. Except for one thing: I was laughing too hard. Come on, Martini. Grow up. Uninformed and multi-page biases are for losers like Tom Clancy. You can do better than this.

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Summary of Critical Mass by Steve Martini

The Critical Mass book written by Steve Martini was published on 21 September 1998, Monday in the Mysteries & Thrillers category. A total of 136 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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