'Stark' has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, they know the Earth is dying.
Deep in Western Australia where the Aborigines used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot takes shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent. A Pommie poseur, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet, Aborigines who lost their land . . . not much against a conspiracy that controls society. But EcoAction isn't society; it just lives in the same place, along with the cockroaches. And if you're facing the richest and most disgusting scheme in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say "peace".
'Gridlock' is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon-monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice.
How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else's gravy train? Deborah and Geoffrey know; but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdered the city can just as easily murder them.
