Two Dead Climatologists... An International Conspiracy... A Looming Ecological Disaster... Tipping Point: There will be no return... 1903: The Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage is navigated for the first time. 2012: An eminent climatologist is found dead in his London apartment. For Robert Spire, an environmental lawyer, what appears to be a standard executor's appointment in his client's will, turns out to be anything but, as he is thrust into an international conspiracy involving a terrorist plot to push the Arctic to its tipping point, and the world to disaster... TIPPING POINT is a fast-paced action adventure thriller which will keep you turning the pages until the very end. When eminent climatologist Dr Dale Stanton - in the process of studying the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation - is found dead in his London apartment, environmental lawyer, Robert Spire, is given the task to administer a large legacy left by him to global warming organisations. The job should have been straightforward, until a second climatologist, Dr Jack Bannister drops dead on the other side of the Atlantic. AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY Spire's client - suspicious of her son's death - asks him to travel to San Francisco to investigate Dr Jack Bannister's death. Whilst there, Spire learns of a plan to seed the Arctic Ocean with an experimental substance - the aim, to prevent, or at least slow the Arctic's melting ice. A female Russian assassin is tracking Spire's every move however, leaving no doubt that someone has other plans for the region, and wants the climatologists dead at all costs. A LOOMING ECOLOGICAL DISASTER As evidence of increased glacial melt in Greenland and reduction in the Arctic ice mounts, Spire becomes determined to join the joint US/French expedition to seed the Arctic. He soon finds however, that the lives of all on board are in peril as he uncovers a conspiracy which threatens to push the Arctic to its tipping point and the Earth to disaster... TIPPING POINT is a Climate-Fiction themed Action-thriller, set in London, Paris, San Francisco, along the Northwest Passage all the way to the Arctic... "Simon Rosser's scientific and psychological thriller "Tipping Point" is one of the best I have read in the past decade. He has a gift for fluent narrative, realistic characterization and for creating settings that come vividly to life for the reader. He blends tension and suspense very successfully against the contemporary background of global warming and its sinister implications. --Author, TV presenter and Priest Lionel Fanthorpe - Simon Rosser, author of The A-Z of Global Warming draws on his experience to write Tipping Point, a pacey disaster-fiction adventure-thriller with an environmental theme. With crisp dialogue and engaging characters, Tipping Point will appeal to readers interested in adventure thrillers with an environmental twist. What the readers are saying; " Compelling story about a very current issue" "Tip top global adventure" "Enjoyable action-thriller" "Great yarn, couldn't put it down" "Well-crafted environmental thriller" "Simmering suspense" Robert Spire's second action-thriller "IMPACT POINT" is now out!

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