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September Eleventh . . . war in Iraq . . . turmoil in the Middle East . . . an impending war with Iran. They have one thing in common: oil. And the world is running out.
The Shell Game is a thrilling novel that faces the end of oil and the next big attack on American soil. This fictional tale resonates with chilling facts from real-life informants in the oil industry and the U.S. government, piecing together the terrifying truth about a nation addicted to oil.
The tale opens in 2007 as the CIA plans a nuclear attack on an American city, blaming the deaths of millions of Americans on Iran and inciting a retaliatory strike that will place the U.S. in control of Iran's oil resources. Five years later, petroleum geologist Ashley "Ace" Futrell discovers that the world's oil supply is rapidly nearing its end. When his wife - a former national security advisor - is suddenly murdered, Ace finds himself hurtling down a rabbit's hole that leads to the brink of World War III.
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Zully Tapia
reviewed The Shell Game on January 27, 2014
The Shell Game
This was a decent thriller--I think Steve Alten is incapable of writing a truly bad book. It's an odd experience reading the book now, in 2015, since it was published in 2007, but set in the, then, near future. So some things that seemed terrifyingly possible in 2007 have not actually come to pass. The Republicans didn't win the White House in either 2008 or 2012, for instance. That is not to say that the entire book is implausible; it's just oddly out of synch in places. There's some standard 911 conspiracy material in here, but it's well integrated and works in the context of this book. Alten does provide some suggestions for further reading and cites sources for some of the more unbelievable tidbits. This is definitely more overtly political than the rest of his work, or at least what I've read of it. This is not my favorite book of his--that would be Meg--but it's definitely worth reading. I did notice a few more typos than one would expect from a major hardcover release: either Alten or his editor seems unaware of the difference between "regiment" and "regimen" or "affect" and "effect" for instance. This definitely marred my enjoyment of the book, and I hope there will be less of that in the future.
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