From the book cover: A supertanker has crashed off the shores of San Francisco, producing the largest oil spill in history.  Desperate to avert an ecological -- and public relations -- disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill.  A virus spreads like wild fire on the wind, destroying anything made of petroleum -- destroying gasoline in automobile tanks, plastic, nylon, the very fabric  of modern civilization itself.

“Compulsively readable.  The best disaster novel in many years.  The problems of a United States falling apart at the seams as petroleum products vanish are shown at the national and local level, always through the effects on individuals.  The basic idea is terribly plausible, the science spot-on, the politics totally persuasive.  ILL WIND is a book you will read when you should be doing other things.  Once you start, there is never a thought that you might not continue to the last page.”

                                            Charles Sheffield, senior scientist, Earth Satellite Corporation

                                                                         and award-winning author of Cold as Ice

“A REAL WINNER, THIS BOOK HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A CLASSIC.  Your grasp of the science, the technology, and the political scene -- and your ability to weave a truly engrossing fabric involving all them in authoritative fashion -- are unique.  My only worry is that you may have done to biotechnology what the China Syndrome did to nuclear energy -- scared the hell out of the public.”

                                            Dr. D. Alan Bromley, former Assistant to the President for Science

                                                                              and Technology and Director, White House

                                                                              Office for Science and Technology Policy

“A High-Action, bestseller-caliber disaster novel grounded in unsettling accurate science.”

                                            Booklist

“Even without gasoline this novel surges right along to a powerful conclusion about the dangers of reckless biotechnological research and the possibilities of American ingenuity in the midst of chaos and danger.”

                                            “All Things Considered,” National Public Radio

"ILL WIND IS A BELIEVABLE AND FAST READ. It goes George Stewart's classic Earth Abides one better, illustrating the perils of overreacting to environmental problems and misusing technology."

                              Dr. Wilson K. Talley, president of the Hertz Foundation

                                                           and former administrator of the

                                                            U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

            "ILL WIND is compelling reading. A clever, believable, and adventurous epic."                                             

                                            Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Rush

"I ENJOYED ILL WIND THOROUGHLY. Anderson and Beason have managed to take a plausible premise and turn it into a very entertaining (and also plausible) 'civilization in the aftermath' story."

                            Walter S. Scott, President, Worldview Imaging Corporation