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| Rising Phoenix Low Price Cassette: Low Price Cassette | 
 enlarge | Author: Kyle Mills
Creator: Campbell Scott
Publisher: HarperAudio
Category: Book
List Price: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 1735142
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 2
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0694523275
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780694523276
ASIN: 0694523275
Publication Date: April 1, 2000
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Bestselling author Kyle Mills' stunning debut thriller - In the most chilling yet plausible thriller of the decade, a renegade DEA agent and a TV evangelist team up to introduce the Final Solution to America's most intractable social problem. POISON THE DRUG SUPPLYJohn Hobart is a sociopath to who only results matter. Simon Blake takes his orders directly from an angry God, who demands an end to the devastation of drug addiction and damn the human cost. The narcotics are poisoned at their source, in the cartel's processing plant hidden in the jungles of South America. Meanwhile, full page ads appear in newspapers all across the national, giving addicts a simple choice: QUIT OR DIESoon America's emergency rooms are flooded, chaos reigns in the inner cities, and the government is forced to act. Maverick FBI agent Mark Beamon is given the thankless task of finding out who's behind the shadowy "Committee for a Drug-Free Society". Teamed with Agent Laura Vilechi, who is as icily analytical as he is intuitive, Beamon begins a desperate "all-points" search across three continents, racing against the drug cartels, the American Mob and the mounting violence of "the street". Vivid, believable, and blazing with lightning-fast action, this gripping first novel captures every dramatic instant of the manhunt for the only mass murders to win approval ratings in the polls. More than just world-class entertainment, Rising Phoenix is a story that will make you think twice.
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One of my favorites! December 1, 2007
Kyle Mills is a very gifted writer. Smooth pacing and entertaining scenes on almost every page. This one is outstanding for a debut novel. I think Fade still stands as my favorite by him though.
Stranger than reality. April 5, 2007
Reality #1: over the past 20 years, there have been at least 3 outbreaks of poisonings related to contamination of street drugs. In none of the outbreaks could a "reason' for the substitution or addition of one drug be determined. Additionally, the perpetrator or perpetrators have never been caught.
Reality #2: "unintentional" deaths from drug abuse outnumber deaths from homicides
Reality #3: drug abuse crossess all economic and demographic boundaries
Along comes Kyle Mills to put a new spin on reality with his gripping novel of intrigue and science. Could his fiction really be reality? When a rogue DEA agent and a frustrated, do good, clergyman join forces and poison the street drug stream, chaos is produced when dead drug abusers start piling up in hospitals throughout the world. Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
 Avoid this book if you have anything important which needs to be done! February 19, 2007
Annually my Christmas gift to friends is the best book I have read during the previous year. Kyle Mills' first published work was my choice during an earlier year, and I would encourage anyone who enjoys a thrilling almost real-life scenario to add Rising Phoenix to your list of books to read. However, I will give you the same warning I voice to whomever I share this book with: Do not begin reading if you have anything important which needs to be done, as I can assure you that once you complete the first chapter, whatever you deem important will have to wait.
 Three stars due to the audacious plot idea November 3, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well..how to begin. I think that this book had an excellent and relatively innovative idea to wrap a story around. Poison the drug supply and what happense to the US and Columbia..neat concept! It's in the execution of the story that things start to fall apart for me. As an example (and I freely admit that his editor should probably be flogged for this as well) the author described Houston as a desert. The rugged terrain, the exposed rock etc etc during a car chase that seemed to have no real connection to the story other than to show Mark's character. While the character development was nice, it is a bit of a problem as Houston was built in a swamp. To find anything that resembles desert is a several HOURS drive to the west. All the scene needed was some tumbleweed rolling through to complete the illusion of the old west..well, some tumbleweed and the ability to move the location a few hundred miles west. It's that sort of jarring detail that makes me question the remainder of the story and it was that scene that in fact started me down the road to losing interest....A nice if somewhat underperforming start to what I hope is a good career..
Enjoyed the Concept August 6, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the concepts and ideas in this book. I'm not going to write a plot summary because Amazon and other reviewers have already did that. But the concept that someone could poison cocaine and heroin at the production stage to get people to quit using is interesting. I really enjoyed the character development. I'm looking forward to reading Storming Heaven next to see what Mark Beamon gets himself into next.
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