Andrew Goliszek
A biologist discovers the Pentagon is working on germ warfare to
destroy the industrial capacity of Third World countries so as to
eliminate competition. Dr. Linda Franklin of NASA takes it upon
herself to expose the weapon in question, a quest that places her life
in danger.
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A top-secret project created by a renegade Pentagon unit has loosed a
terrifying new weapon, and only two people can prevent a shift in the
global balance of power and the deaths of millions. NASA senior
investigator Linda Franklin is sent in to inspect a crash site, only to
discover the wreckage of a plane that doesn't exist. She has unwittingly
stumbled onto a high-level conspiracy that has already killed other
interlopers and is now coming after her. Soon she realizes she holds
evidence of a Pentagon plan called "World Order," a plan to use a horrible
biochemical weapon that shouldn't exist, one developed by the Pentagon
but used by Saddam Hussein against American soldiers in the Gulf War.
As she frantically searches for help in uncovering the project's secrets,
everyone she contacts either disappears without a trace or ends up dead.
She is completely alone until one man, John Peterson, joins her.
Together they are thrown into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a
ruthless group of conspirators out to destroy the global balance of
economic power - and anyone who gets in their way.
Synopsis:
In the Arizona desert a lone trucker sees a flash of light and hears a
deafening sound. When he stops to investigate, he becomes the first
casualty of a top-secret, military conspiracy known only to a select
few as World Order. When NASA investigator Linda Franklin is called
into survey the wreckage of this aircraft she's never seen before, she
stumbles onto a piece of a high-level Pentagon plot to use a
biochemical weapon.
Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest
A conventional woman-on-the-run-from-mysterious-forces plot gains new
levels of obscurity in Goliszek's (Rivers of the Black Moon) turgid tale of
high-level biowarfare coverups. Widowed NASA molecular biologist Linda
Jackson is suspicious when the investigation of a mysterious plane crash
is suddenly closed. After her boss is murdered, Linda and her husband's
friend John Peterson undertake their own investigation. Soon, the two
sleuths are off to Malaysia, where they break into a secret biochemical
installation while various characters the president, a fanatical Army
general, a group of military-industrial plutocrats calling themselves the
Vanguard deliver arias about downsizing, drugs, international unrest,
NAFTA, GATT and other threats to America. Although these events occur
in the spring of 1996, there's hardly any mention of the upcoming election.
The writing is pedestrian at best, and the murky plot and plethora of
scientific jargon will muddle most readers, who might profit by first reading
the afterword. In it, Goliszek offers apparently heartfelt theories about
"psychochemical warfare," government secrecy and Gulf War
Syndrome including his contention that America gave Iraq its germ warfare
technology and knowingly gave U.S. troops ineffective gas masks.
Appendix not seen by PW. (Mar.)
World Order
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