I just bought this because I read about it in an article in The Believer. My expectations are high :)

I don't read a lot of books in this genre, so I don't have much to compare this to. It was interesting and I'm glad I read it, just because it's good to read something different now and then. As the article in The Believer pointed out, this book probably would have been more widely read except for the bad timing... the premise is that the cold war is over and there is no more international conflict, and so the rich nations have to find something to do to to keep the economies rolling, and so there is a big effort to build an enormous toxic waste dump somewhere, and different factions compete for the contract, try to undermine each other, argue over the effects of their different dumping plans, & etc. But it's really more fast-paced and interesting than that summary makes it out to be: there are explosions. and a supermodel. But the whole thing loses a great deal of plausibility as it leans on an assumption of general world peace -- it was published in late 2001 or early 2002, too late to fix up the story when world peace fell through.

This book was released at the December Boston Bookcrossing meetup.

A starkly written account of what it takes to keep the third world from being consumed. Nuclear waste is only a metaphor, so to speak, of how the planet and its citizens will have to grow, grow grow. Thank you for a thought-provoking work.

To be released at the Boston Bookcrossing May'11 Meetup, at the Algiers in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, on the 10th of May, 2011, at 7.00 p.m.