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THE MEAN GREEN MACHINE
By Alan M. Brooker
RFI West, Inc. 1-58697-282-0
E-Book $4.95In New Zealand, a mad bomber is on the loose. The target: lawyers and political weasels who want to destroy the world's environment for personal gain. Who is doing the killing? A radical group known as The Green Machine. The police are stumped, suspects turn up dead, and they can't figure out who is behind this group of environmentally aware psychos.
Enter Al Brookes who you might be familiar with in Brooker's other book, The Radicals.
From there Al sets out on an adventure to bring the Green Machine down and expose it's leader who turns out to be a sex-obsessed woman who own a sexual device that can sexual satisfy three people at the same time. Whoo Whoo! Sadly Al Brookes is not a victim of this device, but he has trouble fighting off naked young women, though.
Who is Al Brooks and why does he get involved in these messes? He is not a cop. He doesn't work for a government anywhere in the world (at least there is no clue that he does in this book). He is just a guy with a wife, expecting his first born child, and scuba dives. Maybe we shouldn't be asking these questions, and just accept a hero is a hero. Who cares who he is?
Well, I care, but what can I do.
Anyway, I found the Mean Green Machine to be a bit preachy with boring environmental talk. In fact, this book may be a bit dated. Here in America, I don't hear much talk about the ozone. Due to the heat wave happening as I write this, I just assume the ozone is gone. No use beating a dead horse.
The usual staples of a Brooker novel pepper this story: lack of suspense, one dimensional characters, penetrating virgins, and rape.
Throughout this action packed story with its faults, I found the funniest bit that had me laughing aloud. Al Brookes is infiltrating a bad guy hideout and he is rescuing a young kidnapped girl named Cynthia who, I believe, is a virgin. Now the girl is being raped by three bad guys in a shack or house or something, and Al is going to save her. His logic is that if he can set a fire outside the house, the bad guys will come out to get a beating from Al.
"He (Al) could still hear the cacophony of grunts and sobs coming from the house. They (the bad guys) weren't yet satisfied. Good. The longer they kept going the more time he had to set the fire."
After all it is just rape, not a serious crime as compared to kidnapping.
Review by Mike Purfield
Critical Raves for Mike Purfield's "Dirty Boots."
"If you're looking for a good read, something you've never experienced before, then this is the book for you." Paul Kane of Terror Tales.
Rated 3 out of 4 by Unhinged Magazine.
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