Kill zone

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Title:

Kill zone

Author:

Anderson, Kevin J., 1962- author.

ISBN:

9781250183446

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

319 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject Term:

Government investigators -- Fiction.

Nuclear accidents -- Fiction.

Hazardous wastes -- Accidents -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New Mexico -- Fiction.

Genre:

Suspense fiction.

Added Author:

Beason, Doug,

Summary:

Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access to perform a high-level security review of the facilities. But Hydra Mountain was never meant to securely hold this much hazardous waste, and it has the potential to explode, taking with it all of Albuquerque and spreading radioactivity across the nation. This disaster situation proves all too possible when a small plane crashes at a nearby military base, setting off Hydra's lockdown and trapping Adonia and her team in the heart of the hazardous, waste-filled mountain. Now, the only direction for them to go is deeper into the mountain, through the tear gas and into a secretive area no one was ever supposed to know about.

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Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone , a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age.

Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access to perform a high-level security review of the facilities. But Hydra Mountain was never meant to securely hold this much hazardous waste, and it has the potential to explode, taking with it all of Albuquerque and spreading radioactivity across the nation.

This disaster situation proves all too possible when a small plane crashes at a nearby military base, setting off Hydra's lockdown and trapping Adonia and her team in the heart of the hazardous, waste-filled mountain. Now, the only direction for them to go is deeper into the mountain, through the tear gas and into a secretive area no one was ever supposed to know about.

Author Notes

Kevin J. Anderson was born on March 27, 1962. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked in California for twelve years as a technical writer and editor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His science fiction books include Resurrection, Inc., the Star Wars Jedi Academy Trilogy, the Young Jedi Knights series, Ground Zero, Ruins, Climbing Olympus, Blindfold, and The Dark Between the Stars. He has also written several books with Doug Beason including Ignition, Virtual Destruction, Fallout, and Ill Wind.

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Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Anderson and Beason (Lifeline) fail to do justice to the intriguing setup of this muddled action thriller. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Stanley van Dyckman, a sycophantic Washington, D.C., bureaucrat, organizes a review of the nation's newest nuclear waste facility, Hydra Mountain, outside Albuquerque, N.Mex. The team van Dyckman assembles includes attractive Adonia Rojas, the nuclear site manager, who serves as the group's brains and moral compass; Col. Shawn Whalen, Adonia's former boyfriend and the U.S. president's military aide, who supplies the brawn; and U.S. Senator Pulaski, the total fool who's in charge of the Hydra project's purse strings. Soon after Adonia and company start their tour, a small plane has a problem that causes it to land just inside the facility fence. The protocols for dealing with the breach lead inadvertently to a lockdown. Adonia and the others face increasing peril as they seek to escape the mountain. Stock characters make it difficult for readers to care much about their fate. Other writers have done a better job of dramatizing the risks of a potential nuclear disaster on American soil. Agent: John Silbersack, Bent Agency. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

A near-disaster at a nuclear plant causes the government to renovate a top-secret nuclear-waste-storage facility deep inside a mountain in New Mexico. A group of influential officials is given a tour of Hydra Mountain, and, while they are impressed by the state-of-the-art security protocols, they remain concerned about the sheer amount of materials kept inside. The crash of a small plane at a nearby air base triggers a lockdown, and the tour members, including Department of Energy official Adonia, must outthink the defense mechanisms in place. Unfortunately, that means diving deeper into the mountain to find a way to escape. Anderson and Beason are masters at creating a tension-filled thriller overlaid with fascinating science. Readers who love the mixture of adventure and science found in the work of James Rollins and Michael Crichton will find the latest from this talented pair of authors to be right up their alley.--Jeff Ayers Copyright 2019 Booklist

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