Thirsty Planet, A Novel

By Robert Tell
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Published: Feb. 05, 2010
Words: 88,614 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452300351

Short description

Join Zoe Reuel and Moss Leder as they find love and common purpose in a world that's lost its future. Stay with them as they battle powerful enemies determined to frustrate their scheme to save their THIRSTY PLANET. If you enjoy political fiction thrillers, you won't want to miss this fast moving multi-century whodunnit. It's a novel about broken politics with theological overtones.

Extended description

This page turning thriller takes place in two time periods and is packed with political corruption, greed, murder, and even an inter-century love affair. It was a finalist for the prestigious Montaigne Medal award for thought provoking fiction.

Time travel is central to the story, but its true genre is "political and religious literary fiction," rather than pure "science fiction." This is a fast moving mystery story about broken politics and the future of the Earth, a multi-century whodunnit with theological overtones.

And for people who like literary puzzles there is an "Old Testament" allegory, with biblical clues to be found in some of the key character's names. (Read more) This page turning thriller takes place in two time periods and is packed with political corruption, greed, murder, and even an inter-century love affair. It was a finalist for the prestigious Montaigne Medal award for thought provoking fiction.

Time travel is central to the story, but its true genre is "political and religious literary fiction," rather than pure "science fiction." This is a fast moving mystery story about broken politics and the future of the Earth, a multi-century whodunnit with theological overtones.

And for people who like literary puzzles there is an "Old Testament" allegory, with biblical clues to be found in some of the key character's names.

It's the year 2121 and the veneer of civilization is crumbling. When the wife of physicist, Moss Leder, is brutally murdered during the apparent theft of the couple's drinking water, Leder vows to journey to the previous century where he hopes to alter the flow of events that led to his world's personal and ecological tragedies.

Leder has been secretly dabbling with time travel and is close to achieving success. His plan is violently opposed by the political power brokers of the day, and by his employer, Rafe Bradshaw, whose private black market water business is threatened by the scheme.

At first, Leder's assistant, Zoe Reuel, is directed by Bradshaw, who is also her lover, to undermine Leder's scheme. Can she throw off Bradshaw's influence and become one of Leder's advocates, and his lover…or is Bradshaw's hold on her too strong?

Open warfare erupts between those who control the water resources and those who don't, with Leder emerging as the charismatic leader of the Sectaries, a militant religious movement with a mission to heal the planet.

A century earlier, in 2022, Cassie Lopez, is an environmental specialist in the Administration of President Samantha Blackwell. She has uncovered evidence linking the powerful Senator Alphonse Grimsby to the murder of several environmental activists.

When Cassie tries to make this information public, powerful forces are unleashed that threaten to destroy her and her husband, Paul.

When our 22nd century physicist and our 21st century politician team up to try to fix things, all hell breaks loose. The paradox of time travel brings both stories and love affairs together with a satisfying resolution in the year 2104.

And for people who like literary puzzles there is an "Old Testament" allegory, with biblical clues to be found in some of the key character's names.
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murder mystery, future fiction, political fiction, adventure fiction, time travel fiction, fiction political, fiction religion, fiction canada, climate change fiction, fiction detroit, fiction south america, fiction congress, fiction washington

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