Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbour dumping is still a favourite l
ocal sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the
water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangaman Taylor is Bost
on's modern-day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft
. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly telegenic ways is the perfect met
hod of making enemies, and Taylor has a collection that would do any rabble-rous
er proud.
After his latest exploit, he's wanted by the FBI, possibly by the M
afia, and definitely by a group of Satanist angel-dust heads who think he's look
ing 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 geneti
c engineer and a lab-concocted bacterium that could destroy all ocean life and t
hat's just for appetizers. Frightening, funny, fast and furious, "Zodiac" is thr
illing speculative fiction torn straight from today's headlines.
