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1. In the first couple of chapters, a laboratory experiment dealing with tsunami waves were introduced, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, and a submarine was leased. This will come together later on in the book. Morton is a philanthropist who donates money to the environmental cause and Evans is his lawyer. Along with Kenner, Sanjong, and Sarah, their goal was to stop these “natural” disasters from happening. Morton gets into a car accident and was pronounced dead. Evans Sarah, Kenner, and Sanjong travel around the world to Antartica to stop explosives from destroying a huge glacier, to McKinley to stop rockets from creating a huge storm and flooding, and finally to Gareda to stop generators from creating a huge tsunami that will hit California. These “natural” disasters are caused by Drake and an organization called ELF. Morton was never dead and appeared in Gareda to save Morton and them from the rebels. They would take out a couple of generators to lessen the effect of the tsunami and they succeeded.
2. A memorable section from the story would be when Evans, Sarah, Kenner, and Sanjong attempt to stop these rockets from creating a huge lightning storm. I thought it was exciting when Evans and Sarah were driving and there was a car that was following them. Also lightning kept striking them and it took them a while to finally realize that the radio was the cause of it.
3. The message of the book is that there are always two sides to global warming. There are the skeptics and believers. Kenner did not really believe that global warming was happening because he was giving hard facts to Evans stating so. Crichton also had the hardcore environmentalists become the antagonists.
4. The book ended by Morton, Evans, Sarah, Jennifer, Kenner, and Sanjong stopping the ELF and the generators enough so that the tsunami wouldn’t have much an impact on the Californian coast.
5. Yes, I liked the book. However, at first, I didn’t

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