Fracking for natural gas has turned deadly in Bradford County, Pa. Not only is the water contaminated, but people are dying. A prime suspect: Yukon Oil and Gas whose round-the-clock operations may have poisoned a residential well and a town’s water supply. Who is contaminating the water wells and why are contractors disappearing? Mike Jacobs, a 29-year-old Jewish environmental lawyer with Pennsylvania’s environmental agency is back in this romantically-charged environmental legal thriller about the real outcomes and dangers of fracking and drilling for natural gas.
Mike fulfills the mandate of protecting the Earth, and does not shy away from his roots and the antisemitic challenges he must face. Mike is a Jewish everyman who never conceals his Jewishness, embracing it in all of his actions. He’s willing to stand up for what is right at all turns. While Mike doesn’t loudly proclaim his Jewishness, he represents it. It’s fair to say Strange Fire is complex and intelligent, deftly plotted and character rich. It is also like a college course in fracking and being a mensch.
Fiction
Strange Fire
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2021
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