Dimensions
162 x 240 x 36mm
Jack Wilson has just been released from Allenwood, a maximum-security prison, in White Deer, Pennsylvania. Now that he’s a free man, he is hell-bent on a ‘return to Paradise’. By which he means the destruction of Western civilization . . . Native American by birth, Wilson is a brilliant mathematician obsessed with the secret notebooks of Nikola Tesla – and the ‘Ghost Dance’ of his historical namesake, the Paiute Indian Jack Wilson. Tesla, a turn-of-the-century genius, claimed (and the KGB believed) that he had discovered a weapon of unparalleled destructiveness, a weapon Wilson seeks to use. It is Wilson’s belief that Western civilization is a fragile enterprise, so technically interdependent upon its various components that a carefully targeted attack upon its infrastructure might well bring down the whole thing. In a plot reminiscent of The Straw Men, Jack Wilson sets his diabolical scheme in motion . . .
