Kill Well: The Steep Climes Quartet: Book One - Couverture souple

Guenette, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798988505501

Editeur : CMTI Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Kill Well is a smart, taut thriller that grabs you on the first page and keeps you guessing all the way to the suspenseful conclusion. David Guenette knows a lot about hacking and corporate skullduggery, and he knows a lot about people too.
—Tom Perrotta, Election, Tracy Flick Can’t Win, Little Children, The Leftovers, and Mrs. Fletcher

Climate fiction and thriller, Kill Well tells the story of a young climate activist caught up by a Big Oil deal that is willing to kill for profit. It is 2026, Trump's been elected, but the work for climate progress continues.

In one quick glimpse, her world collapses.

Cynthia Wainwright was on her way to yet another fossil fuel divestment pitch, but now she is on the run. Her boss, a V.P. at Carbon’s End, is dead and someone is trying to make it look like she pulled the trigger.

Chicago’s record-breaking heatwave has a death count, riots, and rolling brownouts, and Jimmy Caine, recent graduate and even more recently laid off, is abandoning the city, heading home to the cool green hills of the Berkshires. On the long North Shore Limited train ride, a pretty woman named Cyn is in distress and he needs to help.

Davin Caine, post-divorce, has a big house and even bigger bills, and he is happy that his son is on his way home to Housatonic, but now with this mysterious young woman in tow. An even bigger problem is the contract killer who may be on the way to the house, working for powers operating in the shadows and desperate to tie up loose ends.

Kill Well is the first book in The Steep Climes Quartet, a provocative series that examines the near- and mid-future consequences of climate change through the lens of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where subtle and not-so subtle consequences reveal that the impending world of global warming is already a decisive part of our everyday lives.

If you love well-researched fiction and find entertaining character-rich books a favorite way to better understand the complexities, challenges, and compromises that lie ahead for us all, this series is for you.

No drowned worlds or climate-ravaged zombies, but a solid story with compelling characters that leaves you thinking that you haven’t been thinking nearly enough about climate change. I can’t wait until the next book in this series hits.
—Larry D. Gussin, Gussin Climate Action Fund at The Sierra Club Foundation

Climate change is not something that is happening independent of people's lives, but rather is already part of each of our lives. This book helps you see that, and, like a magic trick, gives a poignant, entertaining, and funny read along the way.
—Winslow Eliot, author of Bright Face of Danger, Heaven Falls, The Happiness Cure, and A Perfect Gem

David Guenette manages to show that the climate crisis is already affecting our energy and food bills and intensifying the drama of local politics. Kill Well is a fun ride but uncomfortable, too, as we get another way to think about where we’re heading all too quickly.
—Karen Christensen, author of Eco Living, The Green Home, and Home Ecology

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Guenette is the author of The Steep Climes Quartet, a climate fiction series, Publisher at CMTI Publishing, and climate change blogger at https: //www.davidguenette.com. He was founder of Retrosheath, a deep energy retrofit digital tools start-up. He is a member of Citizens' Climate Lobby (https: //citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/MA_Berkshires/) and is a member of the CCL Berkshires Chapter Media Team. He lives in New Marlborough, MA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CMTI Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798988505501
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 393
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg