Egypt Green

by Christopher Hyde

Book Overview

A teenage girl and a down-at-heels journalist join forces to uncover a horrific conspiracy involving germ warfare and a monstrous genetic breeding programme. The scientific facts have been thoroughly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671699431
• ISBN13: 9780671699437
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Best Action Author You've Never Read

I accidentally acquired my first Christopher Hyde novel two dozen years ago when I discovered it in a bag of books I had brought home from a bookstore near my house. They were closing and offered a container full of books for a dollar. One fellow used the back of his station wagon as a "container". I made do with a grocery sack.When you've got a grocery sack and no time to fill it, you will later find any manner of book in your collection. I got true crime, mystery, cookbooks, political diatribe. And somewhere in there I managed to pick up Egypt Green by Christopher Hyde. At the time, I dismissed it as fluff - typical paranoiac potboiler stuff about government evil, bubonic plague and kids kidnaped to repopulate the world. I tossed it aside, intending to look at it later, but knowing I probably wouldn't.Fast forward to last year. I was in a motorcycle accident and broke my hands and elbows. After a few days watching TV became interminable and I switched to books. I read everything in the TBR pile and, in desperation, in my long-forgotten sack of books. And Egypt Green, with some trepidation.But here's the rub, readers. It was good. It was damned good. Hyde created the right amount of tension, mostly believable characters, an interesting plot and page-turner of a book. Sure, there are some elements that don't quite add up, like the nearly-perfect Devon, a teenaged girl who is as competent and deadly as a CIA assassin, the unlikely coincidence at the and and the neat, too-quick wrap up, but overall this was an enjoyable book, with sharp, interesting writing, following the stories of several players in the aforementioned plot to infect the third world with plague. Toby Hagen, the teen prodigy, one of those chosen to carry on and repopulate, Devon, the girl who loves him, Mickey, a reporter and Wolfe, a former astronaut kidnaped and forced to participate in the plot. Also introduced, but under utilized, is Willie Chang, a Hawaiian-Chinese drug smuggler who helps the group get to the bottom of the evil plot. Since reading this book, I've gone on to read a dozen or so more of Hyde's books and he just keeps getting better. I recommend him highly.

The Best Action Author You've Never Read

I accidentally acquired my first Christopher Hyde novel two dozen years ago when I discovered it in a bag of books I had brought home from a bookstore near my house. They were closing and offered a container full of books for a dollar. One fellow used the back of his station wagon as a "container". I made do with a grocery sack.When you've got a grocery sack and no time to fill it, you will later find any manner of book in your collection. I got true crime, mystery, cookbooks, political diatribe. And somewhere in there I managed to pick up Egypt Green by Christopher Hyde. At the time, I dismissed it as fluff - typical paranoiac potboiler stuff about government evil, bubonic plague and kids kidnaped to repopulate the world. I tossed it aside, intending to look at it later, but knowing I probably wouldn't.Fast forward to last year. I was in a motorcycle accident and broke my hands and elbows. After a few days watching TV became interminable and I switched to books. I read everything in the TBR pile and, in desperation, in my long-forgotten sack of books. And Egypt Green, with some trepidation.But here's the rub, readers. It was good. It was damned good. Hyde created the right amount of tension, mostly believable characters, an interesting plot and page-turner of a book. Sure, there are some elements that don't quite add up, like the nearly-perfect Devon, a teenaged girl who is as competent and deadly as a CIA assassin, the unlikely coincidence at the and and the neat, too-quick wrap up, but overall this was an enjoyable book, with sharp, interesting writing, following the stories of several players in the aforementioned plot to infect the third world with plague. Toby Hagen, the teen prodigy, one of those chosen to carry on and repopulate, Devon, the girl who loves him, Mickey, a reporter and Wolfe, a former astronaut kidnaped and forced to participate in the plot. Also introduced, but under utilized, is Willie Chang, a Hawaiian-Chinese drug smuggler who helps the group get to the bottom of the evil plot. Since reading this book, I've gone on to read a dozen or so more of Hyde's books and he just keeps getting better. His books are well-researched, based in fact and terrifyingly plausible. I recommend him highly.