YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED....
A bizzare thing happened regarding my reading of "State of Fear" that just blew me away....
I finished reading the book on Christmas Eve, and enjoyed almost every page of it. Of course the last part of the book details a plot by eco-terrorists to create a huge TSUNAMI in the Solomon Islands by the use of under-water explosives and hypersonic cavitation generators. They were hoping the tsunami would hit the coast of California on the last day of a "catastrophe" conference about global warming. The tsunami would add a real exclamation point to the end of the conference!
Crichton goes into great detail explaining the physics of a tsunami, and how they operate--it was absolutely fascinating! The eco-terrorists were unable to create a wave large enough to reach California, but they certainly were able to create one big enough to ravage the Solomon Islands!
Upon reading this, I thought it would be a LONG TIME before I ever saw a tsunami with the kind of force and power that the eco-terrorists wanted to create in the Solomons...
...just two days later, what should be reported all over the news but a GIANT TSUNAMI killing thousands of people along the coast of the Indian Ocean!
Crichton must have one hell of a publicity firm....
Michael Crichton = Tsumnami
In the book he discribes a man made Tsunami. Makes you wonder?!?