The Devil Knocks
by Frank Rich
HELL IS FOR THE LIVING!
It is 2031, and beyond the lawless inner city lie the badlands where chemical and biological cesspools have driven nature to delirium and disorder. Massive superhighways crisscross the ruined countryside, promising a one-way ticket to anybody's worst nightmare.
Denver is a police state — and a revolution waiting to happen. Jake Strait's job runs more to knocking off killers, not toppling cities. But things get hot enough in his particular corner of hell that hurtling across a toxic wasteland against an impregnable fortress looks good.
NOW JAKE IS THE CHOSEN HERO OF THE HOUR IN A FLAT-OUT RACE FOR THE FINISH LINE, WHERE EVEN VICTORY WILL PLACE HIM IN DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
It is 2031, and beyond the lawless inner city lie the badlands where chemical and biological cesspools have driven nature to delirium and disorder. Massive superhighways crisscross the ruined countryside, promising a one-way ticket to anybody's worst nightmare.
Denver is a police state — and a revolution waiting to happen. Jake Strait's job runs more to knocking off killers, not toppling cities. But things get hot enough in his particular corner of hell that hurtling across a toxic wasteland against an impregnable fortress looks good.
NOW JAKE IS THE CHOSEN HERO OF THE HOUR IN A FLAT-OUT RACE FOR THE FINISH LINE, WHERE EVEN VICTORY WILL PLACE HIM IN DOUBLE JEOPARDY.