Zodiac

Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party harbour dumping is still a favourite local sport only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangaman Taylor is Boston's modern -day Paul Revere spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly telegenic ways is the perfect method of making enemies and Taylor has a collection that would do any rabble-rouser proud.After his latest exploit he's wanted by the FBI possibly by the Mafia and definitely by a group of Satanist angel-dust heads who think he's looking for a PCP factory not PCB contamination. Pretty soon dodging bullets is the least of Taylor's problems - because somewhere out there are an unhinged genetic engineer and a lab-concocted bacterium that could destroy all ocean life and that's just for appetizers.Frightening funny fast and furious Zodiac is thrilling speculative fiction torn straight from today's headlines.