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Genre: Thriller
Length: 465 pages
Publisher: Big City Press
Release date: July 1, 2024
Brief description:
The doomsday clock is set to 90 seconds to midnight. There is no time to waste. Mike Bond delivers this summer’s must-read thriller – our survival depends on it.
Nuclear war is coming.
can we stop
Or is it too late?
On an October night, far out in the South China Sea, a diver plants an explosive charge under a huge oil platform. On the platform above, geologist Liz Chaplin stands watching the Southern Cross sink beneath the waves.
Ross Bullock, the CEO of Rawhide Energy and the owner of the platform in New York, announces at a televised press conference that our country has made a fatal mistake in Ukraine and is headed for a nuclear war.
Immediately, the White House, the intelligence agencies, the media, and the financial world attack Rawhide for raising the specter of nuclear war and thereby jeopardizing the president’s re-election.
The action extends to Mongolia, Indonesia, Washington and Ukraine. The real perpetrator of these crimes becomes known – it is impossible, unbelievable, but true. Is the White House behind this?
The president is threatening nuclear war with Russia to distract voters from fraudulent deals with Ukraine and China and worsening polls. The Russians are responding by increasing their nuclear readiness. But only the president can decide to launch a nuclear war because he is tied to the nuclear button.
So begins CRUDE, Mike Bond’s new super-thriller that takes us to the door of world destruction and shows us what’s inside.
Review copy provided in exchange for honest review
Crude was an interesting mystery that followed our hero as he tries to discover WHO His oil refinery was blown up. I love a good thriller/mystery and a rough delivery for the most part. Mike Bond is an expert in several fields, which accounts for his ability to write this political thriller. Crude was heavy on the political side. It was all about the politics of the oil industry and what drives the price either up or down. I honestly don’t know enough to say if what is written is accurate or not.
Crude also delves into several other conspiracies and how they tie into politics. Political thrillers aren’t my usual thing, but the premise was enough to pique my interest. There’s a lot going on here, and Mike Bond has quite a few characters. Sometimes it was almost too much to keep straight. The plot also meanders quite often, making it harder to read than I would have liked. All that said, Raw was interesting and well worth the juice.
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Mike Bond, Biography –
Mike Bond has been called “a master of the existential thriller” by the BBC and “one of the most exciting authors of the 21st century” by The Washington Times. He is a best-selling novelist, environmental activist, international energy expert, war and human rights correspondent, and award-winning poet who has lived and worked in many remote and dangerous parts of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the human heart’s innate hunger for that which is good, the intense joy of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister entanglements of international politics and multinational corporations, and the fading beauty of the natural world.
