Kill Zone, Doug Beason
Kill Zone, Doug Beason
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Kill Zone

Author: Doug Beason, Kevin J. Anderson

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/27/2019


Synopsis

Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone, a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age.

Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War–era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the U.S. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others, including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access to perform a high-level security review of the facilities. But Hydra Mountain was never meant to securely hold this much hazardous waste, and it has the potential to explode, taking with it all of Albuquerque and spreading radioactivity across the nation.

This disaster situation proves all too possible when a small plane crashes at a nearby military base, setting off Hydra's lockdown and trapping Adonia and her team in the heart of the hazardous, waste-filled mountain. Now, the only direction for them to go is deeper into the mountain, through the tear gas and into a secretive area no one was ever supposed to know about.

About Doug Beason

Doug Beason is a Nebula Award finalist whose fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Beason has worked on the White House staff for the President's Science Advisor under both the Bush and Clinton Administrations as the key staffer for space science and technology. As the Associate Laboratory Director for Threat Reduction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was responsible for the programs and people that reduced the global threat of weapons of mass destruction. Before moving to Los Alamos, Doug received an MS in National Resource Strategy and completed a twenty-four year career as an Air Force officer, retiring as a colonel. He has lived in Canada, the Philippine Islands, and Okinawa.


Reviews

Goodreads review by William

I have enjoyed Mr. Anderson’s work for a long time. This action driven story is no exception. Well written and with characters I want to see escape the dangers of a radioactive storage facility. Plenty of government conspiracy along with left over cold war era issues that in today current climate p......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

The whole book is built on a premise of classified information and thoughtless regulation-following workers that is supremely flawed. Characters are shallow and the start of each chapter feels like the recap on your weekly television series. Many of the characters' actions don't make sense. I defini......more

Goodreads review by Robert

Four discs in to an eight disc set and I couldn't finish. This is not up to Kevin J. Anderson standards. I do a great deal of work on control systems. Hearing about interactions and unpredictables and restart times and safety system versus protection system and budget constraints was torture. Yes, I......more