Fatal Exposure

Fatal Exposure by Michael Tobias The dawn caresses the earth. The horror begins.On the shores of British Columbia beached whales die of starvation and disease, while an Indian shaman sings a chant of doom. In Seattle, an embittered scientist, confined to a wheelchair, pores through sheets of computer projections. Then a local TV reporter, whose wife works on the front lines of a governmental reasearch agency, gets the story of a lifetime.Above the Arctic Circle a hole in the ozone layer has begun drifting southward, letting in a shower of sunshine and heat- sun that blinds, heat that kills and hatches murderous swarms of insects. While a handful of courageous men and women try to spread the warning, a government cover-up extends all the way to murder. Soon the Pacific Northwest will be overcome by an environmental tragedy such as the world has never seen.....