Joe Benton has been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after the election results, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. With the world terrifyingly close to catastrophe, Benton must save the United States from environmental devastation. He resumes secret bilateral negotiations with the Chinese - now the world's worst polluter - and as the two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing ...
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Joe Benton has been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after the election results, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. With the world terrifyingly close to catastrophe, Benton must save the United States from environmental devastation. He resumes secret bilateral negotiations with the Chinese - now the world's worst polluter - and as the two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing battle of wits becomes a race against time. With tension escalating on almost every page and building to an astonishing climax, Matthew Glass's visionary and deeply unsettling thriller steers us into the dark heart of political intrigue and a future that is all too terrifyingly believable.
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Thinking this book would be full of action and thrills - mainly about losing coastal land and the relocation of millions - I plunged into it. Instead it was a behind-the-scenes political story about a new U.S. President taking on this issue. Before his inauguration, the outgoing President informs him that the situation is many times more dire than is publicly known. The new President must select all of his cabinet members, be inaugurated, and then create a core group around him who know how dire the situation is. Then, they must try to convince China to come on board as the U.S. and China are the superpowers in 2032. Secret negotiations take place in Oslo but as they think they are ready to sign a pact initiating stringent proposals, China leaves the table.
The negotiations, the complexities of China's internal power struggles, the news conferences in which the U.S. President must skirt around the issues prior to his being ready to announce them, the talks with Great Britain's prime minister, the workings behind the scenes that are mostly unknown by citizens all are pulled together tightly by this author and make compellig reading. So, I did experience a suspenseful thriller after all.
