The Last Albatross is the first book in Ian Irvine

Ian Irvine

Ian Irvine is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.- Career :Irvine was born in...

's Eco-thriller titles, set in 2010. It depicts what our world might be like in a few years time, focusing on environmental depletion and cultural degeneration. There is a large emphasis on green cults and terrorists, as well as a love story.

Characters

• Jemma Elizabeth Hardey: is wife to Ryn Hardey. After finding out that Ryn and Hercus Barges stole plutonium from Marlinga, she enters her name into the Death Lottery and is haunted by emails encouraging her to commit suicide, like thousands of others around the world. She returns home to Ryn where they are chased and tracked. Jemma is a timid character who grows with confidence throughout the novel.
• Ryn Hardey: is the husband to Jemma Hardey. After stealing some plutonium from Maralinga desert with Hercus Barges, a dominant friend from university, he finds years later his life, and his wife's is at danger from desperate green cults, determined to get their hands on the explosive material.
• Hercus Barges:
• Levi Seth:
• Ulf Bamert:

Reception

Jackie Cassada said in her review for Library Journal

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 that "the author of The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror is the first quartet in Ian Irvine's bestselling The Three Worlds Cycle series.-Titles:The View from the Mirror consists of four books:*A Shadow on the Glass*The Tower on the Rift*Dark is the Moon...

 crafts a chilling sf suspense story set against a backdrop of 21st-century environmental depletion and cultural degeneration. First published in Australia, Irvine's latest novel, the first in a trilogy of eco-thrillers, portrays a frighteningly plausible near future".

Titles of the Human Rites Sequence

• The Last Albatross (November 2000)
• Terminator Gene
  Terminator Gene
  Terminator Gene is the second book in Ian Irvine's Eco-thriller titles. Set after The Last Albatross, this is the story of Jemma Hardey's daughter. This book is due to be re-released as a revised edition in September 2009.-Plot:...
  
  (April 2003)
• The Life Lottery
  The Life Lottery
  The Life Lottery, a futuristic eco-thriller, is the final book in Ian Irvine's Human Rites Sequence, set after the events in Terminator Gene, it is also only published in Australia and currently out of print, but will be re-released as a revised edition in March 2010.- Titles of the Human Rites...
  
  (August 2004)

Publishers

• Simon & Schuster Australia
• Mobipocket
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