Published: Sep. 06, 2011
Words: 115,884 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781908369024

Short description

"How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?" *** “Mr McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier's eye for terrain and the soldier's eye for character. This has the ring of truth.” — John Braine Sunday Telegraph

Extended description

THE MEYERSCO HELIX

"How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?"

An extremely powerful novel of the biowar apocalypse, THE MEYERSCO HELIX traces the frighteningly plausible accidents by which the casual killing of a near-extinct mole escalates inexorably towards where an anguished President’s must choose either to let a self-propagating biowar substance to kill the world’s population — or to destroy a major American city by nuclear blast. (Read more) THE MEYERSCO HELIX

"How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?"

An extremely powerful novel of the biowar apocalypse, THE MEYERSCO HELIX traces the frighteningly plausible accidents by which the casual killing of a near-extinct mole escalates inexorably towards where an anguished President’s must choose either to let a self-propagating biowar substance to kill the world’s population — or to destroy a major American city by nuclear blast.

“Mr McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier's eye for terrain and the soldier's eye for character. This has the ring of truth.”
— John Braine Sunday Telegraph

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

K116 is the top secret US chemical weapon that spells instant agonizing death to mankind. Self-generating in water, only a nuclear blast can stop the deadly dust expanding.

But when a lethal cloul of K116 escapes from a military research lab, one man survives. Charged with nightmare energy, Ribicoff becomes a walking carnage-machine.

Alive Ribicoff is a lethal liability — but dead his K116-glutted body will unleash chemical slaughter on a scale that will make the Black Death look like a summer cold.

Pursued by the massed might of US security forces, Ribicoff acts with the desperate, ruthless bloodlust of an animal at bay — until they corner him in Boston. Where his fiancé, the biochemist Stella Christopher, certain that he will come to her, is desperately working on a cure, despite the agents of her own government trying to kill her.

But will an American President act with equal ruthlessness? There is only one way to cauterize the city of America’s Founding Fathers.

It will be no tea party...

“Like the unblinking eye of a cobra, it is fascinating and hard to look away from, powerful and unique.”
— Edwin Corley Good Books
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Tags

romance, thriller, suspense, adventure, military, apocalypse, sexy, conspiracy, boston, sports, football, security, violent, disaster, catastrophe, chase, nuclear, special forces, national security, nuke, chemical, quarterback, chemist, security forces, chemwar

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Review by: Gavin Lipscombe on Nov. 06, 2011 :
A techno thriller, well written and worth a read. Some ideas are a bit far fetched and I found myself getting slightly annoyed with some parts of the book, and some of the jumping around in the timeline.

However, overall I enjoyed the story it was well written and I kept turning pages eager to continue the story.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Francine Richert on Oct. 25, 2011 :
This is a novel previously released in the 80s. It is truely timeless, as relevant now as it may have been then. The characters are brilliantly written with my favorite being Dr. Stella Christopher, who just so happens to be the gritty, tough, strongly written female lead.
The President is between a rock and a hard place. Should he destroy a major American city, in this case Boston, or annihilate the world's population? Seems like a fairly easy decision...well unless you live in Boston....but it isn't and Mr. McCoy takes you through the whole mindset of the characters as they battle their inner dragons and the outer one's opposing them as well.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Joo on Sep. 30, 2011 :
Andre Jute writes that this book was first published in 1988 and was re-edited, but there was no sign of it being over 20 years old. It seemed completely in the now. I like a good biological thriller and this was just that. The thought that something could so easily escape into the atmsphere and the only way to stop it is with high collateral damage is scary.
In the main, this story is very much a chase story. I did have a problem with it at one point where the pursuers had stopped to do some nasty deeds, yet caught up with the pursued even though he appeared to be travelling via faster means.
There were some twists and turns that caught me out and - as a reader - I found the ending to be satisfactorily unexpected.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Pamela Richter on Sep. 30, 2011 :
The Mayersco Helix by Andrew McCoy, edited by Andre Jute, is a wonderful thriller. The plot is complex and so exciting it's hard to put the book down. There is a chemical killer that can replicate, an infected zone, a government cover-up and a couple of brilliant people trying to defeat this horrible new type of plague. Highly recommended!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: K. A. Jordan on Sep. 30, 2011 :
Nerve-wracking thriller about an unstoppable WMD unleashed through stupidity and violence.

The President has 2 mintues to decide if he should Nuke the city of Boston to save the world. Meanwhile, the brilliant and couragous Dr. Stella Christopher is trying to save herself and her beloved Rib in the face of impossible odds.

If I didn't know this was first released in the 1980's, I wouldn't be able to tell.

Dr Christopher beats any nutcase with a dragon on her butt!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Lisa Penington on Sep. 29, 2011 :
I must declare an interest - I was sent this to read and review by the author. It was no chore. The story kept me interested and turning pages all the way along. I believe this has been re-written or updated from an earlier version but it's very much up to date.

It's a fast moving thriller with a moral dilemma. Does the President of the USA press the button on Boston rather than letting the world be consumed by a terrifying chemical weapon? The characters are well drawn and the author writes the female protagonist extremely well. We are with Stella all the way in her fight to discover what has caused her fiance's injuries and to get him to safety. The 'baddies' are very bad and the 'goodies' are human beings. What more could you want?

A very good read.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: steve humphreys on Sep. 21, 2011 :
Pretty good story. Lots of typos. Worth the price.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Willie Wit on Sep. 12, 2011 :
An excellent thriller that quickly combines a larger than life scenario with your new found concerns for the likeable main characters.
In the grand tradition you have good to root for and varying degrees of bad to dislike, with a healthy dose of sex and violence giving a sharp edge to the interesting storyline. One that constantly twists and turns.
It is hard to judge the size of a book on the Kindle but this felt like a big read. A sense of depth is achieved by the healthy blend of elements within it, a good balance of science, action and a range of varied characters are formed well by the quality of writing throughout.
A great read from it's beginning to the well executed ending.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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