Firespill by Ian Slater (
ISFDB), an Australian-born Vancouver resident and former University of British Columbia teacher on oceanography issues, is a vintage ecological disaster suspense thriller taking place on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, with what appears to be an international clean-up effort involving Russian, Japanese, Canadian, and US personnel, free courtesy of publisher Diversion Books, who are reprinting it from the original 1977 Bantam Books hardcover.
The author has blurb praise from popular thriller writer Clive Cussler, though it doesn't indicate whether it's generic blurb-praise, or specific to this particular book, so YMMV.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK),
iTunes &
Google Play (both available to Canadians).
And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Because even though this book is older than I am, this is still a depressingly topical issue because stuff like this keeps happening (I admit that much of the time it doesn't seem likely to be at risk of getting set on fire, though) and keeps being likely to, especially if some of the proposed pipelines get built.
Not to mention, the author is a transplanted local, and this is like not even my backyard, but my actual front yard (okay, some umpty km away, but still…), so bonus points for actually being a book set more-or-less where I live.
Enjoy!
Description
An environmental catastrophe of hell on water, from bestselling author Ian Slater.
600 million gallons of high-octane fuel pours on the wind-swept waters of North America's West Coast.
One match will ignite a raging inferno.
Burning with fury—nothing will stop it.
Firespill. A blazing inferno of terror—out of control, threatening thousands of human lives. A startling rescue operation is underway before this tragedy gets deadly in this gripping, shockwave novel.