Synopses & Reviews
An all-too-plausible eco-thriller from the best-selling author of
The Second Horseman.
Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend and he isn't happy when an oil company executive comes calling. A number of important Saudi wells have stopped producing and Erin is the world's foremost expert in resolving just these kinds of complications. As far as he's concerned, though, he's left that world behind. Not his problem.
Homeland Security sees things differently.
Erin quickly finds himself stuck in the Saudi desert, studying a new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil and an uncanny talent for destroying drilling equipment. But worst of all is its ability to spread. It soon becomes clear that if this contagion isn't stopped, it will infiltrate the world's petroleum reserves, cutting the industrial world off from the energy that provides the heat, food, and transportation necessary for survival. Erin realizes that there's something eerily familiar about this bacteria. And that it couldn't possibly have evolved on its own.
Review
"Mills, the standard-bearer for doomsday thrillers, offers another entry that is as disturbing as it is entertaining....Mills has done it again: another up-all-night read (with nightmares to follow)." Booklist (Starred Review)
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"Darkness Falls unfolds in fast-paced chapters, a contest of wits and a race against time....The reader is engaged because Mills, much like Nelson DeMille, creates characters as articulate as they are intelligent, in a lovable macho way....This is a top-notch thriller..." The Denver Post
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"While I found the story...compelling and scary as all get out, I found its presentation dull and uninteresting and, for the most part, an obstacle to my enjoyment of the tale....No one in real life is this stupid or one-dimensional." Chicago Sun-Times
Synopsis
From the author of the award-winning The Second Horseman comes an all-too-plausible eco-thriller, in which a new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil threatens the world's energy supply.
Synopsis
A topical and provocative thriller about a man-made biological threat to the worlds oil reserves. Only one man is capable of stopping it
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About the Author
Kyle Mills is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including his award-winning The Second Horseman. Growing up in Oregon as a Bureau Kid, Kyle absorbed an enormous amount of information about the FBI, which he incorporates into his novels. He and his wife live in Wyoming and enjoy rock climbing.