Indian Point, The Novel
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- August
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Sooner or later, it had to happen.
Somebody finally wrote a fictional account of a terrorist attack on the Indian Point nuclear power plant. It’s a novel called— get this—“Indian Point.” How’s that for a grabber of a title?The author is a guy by the name of Barry Arbiloff, who I’ve been trying to reach all day for an interview. So, Barry, if you’re out there, give me a ring.
Since I haven’t read the book (it was published by iUniverse, a vanity outfit), I can’t tell you much about the plot or even if the book is worth your time. However, one review I’ve seen is hardly a rave.
According to the online Kirkus Reviews, “the story has a tired, paint-by-numbers feel to it,” and the plot is “unwieldy.” Numerous characters are introduced and rapidly killed off, and it’s hard to keep them straight, the review said.
At any rate, the story centers on an U.S. intelligence agent, Nicholas Frost, who tries to break up a plot to destroy the Entergy-owned nuke plant with a nuclear weapon packed inside a truck. As best as I can tell, Frost also gets mixed up with some kind of a femme fatale who is in cahoots with the terrorists.
A friend of mine who lives in Cortlandt Manor, which is in the heart of Indian Point country and therefore a prime market for this type of scary book, told me that she and her neighbors have received promotional material about the novel, which included the following excerpt:
“At 3:45, a half mile from Buchanan, a truck with a fancy logo and an American flag, painted on both sides pulled into the parking lot of the A&P supermarket in the shopping plaza in Cortlandt Manor…”
We’re left hanging after that. But I suspect the Islamic crazies are thwarted and the good guys win in the end. I’m also guessing that the loud sound you just imagined going off wasn’t a nuclear blast on the Hudson River..but the thump of a book making a hard landing in the remainder bin.
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Hey Phil…
I’m an old pen-pal of yours.
(I’m the guy who got mad about the Mount Vesuvius article.)
I googled Arbiloff and found out he’s a chiropractor in Riverdale.
What a guffaw! Too bad RFKjr’s sister didn’t have the script, back 2 years ago!!(she needed it).
Reviewers say characters keep popping up & getting killed off so often, that nobody can follow the plot. Whaddya expect? Acupuncture to melodrama is a big jab…er..leap!
Anyway, you can reach him at 2621 Palisade Ave apt 7J, 718-796-8478,
and if he won’t do an interview, at least you can get your back massaged.
I expect to see it on “Lifetime ” within 8 or 10 months.
JS
VP
This post is not connected to the last one.I just noticed Spitzer’s Blog-hack “savaging” you at
http://nydem.typepad.com
/govblog/2006/08/introduction_to.html
check it out., what a little snot this guy is! A little snot hacking for the big snot… aka, the Jewish Kennedy.
Such a wannabe wiseass!
js vp…Thanks. I’ve already contacted him. Got the book, too.
It is with great, (and poorly suppressed) schadenfruede, that I am compelled to inform you, that those plagiarizing dogs, The History Channel, have stolen your Vesuvius idea, presenting its hollow shell on 9/6 as “American Vesuvius”, comparing 9-11 with the farty Italian mountain.
Whew!...
Now, at least, the Lohud is once more safe for beleaguered and molten-lava-averse Indian Point union workers.
In all fairness though…
you WERE first !
I wrote a screenplay (not a very good one) about an armed takeover of a nuclear power plant, when I was in college, whch would make it about 1974.
Mr Arbiloff has clearly stolen my idea, and turned it into a cynical “how-to” primer for al-Qua’ida, but we must not let fundamentalist Islamic terrorists destroy Buchanan’s tax base!
Consequently, I propose that Entergy rearrange all the on-site furniture at Indian Point and leave the lights off, in case the terrorists come calling, rendering Mr Arbiloff’s tome useless.
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