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Title: Plutonium Murders by Robert Davis ISBN: 0-7366-3792-3 Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Pub. Date: 03 October, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $72.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (36 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: The Worst Book in the History of the Written Word
Comment: I just opened the book at random, and the sentence that met my eyes (pg. 367) was, "Electricity was rife." That's it: that is apparently a complete, well-structured, and intelligible sentence in Dr. Robert C. Davis' world.
This book isn't a disaster thriller, it's just a disaster. It's got a tissue-thin plot, no characters to speak of, and barely grade-school spelling and grammar. I work at a boosktore, and somehow a copy of this atrocity found its way to us. We keep it behind the counter to make fun of -- I wouldn't sell it to any poor unsuspecting customer, not for any amount of money. I can't believe that perfectly useful trees had to die for Dr. Davis' vanity. This book deserves negative stars.
What sort of medicine does the good doctor practice? I'd tell him to stick to his day job, but if he treats his patients anything like the way he treats his readers, I fear for them.
Rating: 1
Summary: What research?
Comment: Okay, I admit that I am a radiation safety professional and often find errors made when none professionals write about radiation, but even a LITTLE research by the author would have given us a better book. For example, that they searched for a geiger counter and had to get ones from as far away as Florida. ANY modern hospital will have a nuclear medicine group and GM meters. Any modern university will have hundreds. Additionally, at the first sign of a problem the authorities would have contacted the NRC and local agencies who have all what is needed to make an initial response.
The author can not get the background radiation dose correct by a factor of 10 to 100. The method of radiation posioning by water is interesting; however, almost as much damage would be done by the heavy metal posioning. Plutonium is POORLY absorbed from the oral route. The author uses vague references like x times normal for plutionium and gives no units.
The author references that plutonium can not be found except in a few areas of the world - simply wrong. Finally, plutonium is not a death sentence from cancer at "any amount" no matter how small. Inhaled plutonium is a cancer causing agent that increases the chance that a person will get cancer. Even some highly exposed will NOT develop cancer. The author could draw the same wrong conclusion for smoking. Tabacco contains a very similar alpha emitting atom (polonium) that is deposited in smokers lungs. However, not 100% of them will die of the radiation.
This book MAY be a great read to some; however, it does nothing more than play on mass fear of anything radioactive.
At least I now know an author that does not deserve my time to read because he did not spend the time to research his subject.
Rating: 1
Summary: A BAD book
Comment: A poorly written book and not tangible plot equals nothing but disaster for this book. The book has more spelling errors and geographical misplacement than any book I have had the ability to read. I hope the good doctor is a better practitioner than writer. I tend to agree with some of the other people here that the idea for the book would have been better being pitched to another author. The ending is somewhat short of complete and leaves you wondering what happened?
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