Alex Carter returns for the fifth book in this exciting
wildlife crime series. In a complete change, the setting is
the Big Island of Hawaii, where we find a STORM WARNING. The
intrepid researcher is caring for hawksbill turtles, which
nest on quiet beaches in Hawaii. You guessed it, between
poachers and hurricanes, life is about to get lively. And
thatβs not all to expect.
We start with a chapter in Alaska, where gold miners
uncover a frozen mammoth. I hate following a character
thatβs just set up to be killed, but unfortunately,
thatβs the case, so donβt get too involved. The
bad guys appear for mysterious purposes. But the large
mammoth has already been shipped to the museum of
palaeontology in the town of Anuenue, Hawaii, which has the
means to preserve the find. The bad guys then pursue the
carcass.
Alex β I nearly wrote Anna, as a portion is similar
to an Anna Pigeon book by Nevada Barr β prepares for a
hurricane while checking the turtle eggs and recruiting
helpers. She finds a mother turtle tangled in an illegal
net, due to a tracker, and hopes she can reach it in time to
release it. Little does she know that both the hurricane and
a team of amoral killers are homing in on her location near
the museum.
We see the evil of animal smugglers and a clear warning
that so few turtles remain, and with such long maturation
times, that there may not be enough left to reproduce the
population. Every turtle protected to lay eggs, every
hatchling helped to reach the sea, counts. At the end of the
book, the author Alice Henderson provides notes on how to
help sea turtles.
Meanwhile, what of Alex, her wilderness knowledge, and
her favourite multitool? Sheβs leading us on a
terrifying chase through a storm surge, wild seas, thrashing
trees and pitch-black lava tubes, across fiery volcanic lava
fields and down into the depths of drains. There are more
local people in this tale, more constructed sites, but due
to the weather, she ends up alone, running from the bad guys
anyway. Yes, Alex is back on form, and itβs so
intense, so scary and unpredictable, that itβs hard to
read in one sitting. If you loved the earlier stories in the
series, you will certainly want to pick up this one. STORM
WARNING is a message to us all to expect more hurricanes in
our near future, more evil done in pursuit of big money, and
more that we value lost.
Alex Carter is thrilled to be in lush, tropical Hawaii for her new assignment: to study and protect hawksbill turtles. From global warming to poaching to the simple fragility of a turtle’s nest, these creatures are under constant threat. And as excited as Alex is to swim, explore, and relax, she’s also ready to be these turtles’ fiercest protector.
Alex looks forward to a break from the danger of her past assignments, but soon finds that environmental crime can happen anywhere, even in a Hawaiian paradise. As a massive hurricane approaches, armed thieves storm onto the beach where Alex and her volunteers are desperately trying to move turtle eggs to safety out of the storm surge.
When the gunmen take one of her volunteers hostage and Alex tracks them to a nearby paleontology museum, Alex suspects that there’s more to these mysterious criminals than meets the eye and that the repercussions of their success will extend far beyond the shores of the Big Island. Whatever their treacherous plot may be, Alex must scramble to protect the turtles, her friends, and the world at large… before irreversible damage is done.
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