Exciting tale of the hunt for a green terrorist attacking U.S infrastructure sites. A young FBI analyst is brought into the hunt and with his sympathies to the activists cause a race against time drives the story along. With viewpoints from either side in the narrative this is a clever green tale. Interesting!

An interesting and thought.provokong story. Loved the differnet POV's it make you connect a lot more with the characters. At times the book went a.bit slower than I would have liked but I finished it in the end and was very happy with how the story went. Great detail was evident in the minds of the two main characters really bringing them to life

Absolutely thrilling, loved it but not from the offset. At first was distracted and was gonna give up but stuck with it and after the initial few chapters was hooked. An amazing read and so in tune with what's going on environmentally at the moment. You have to read this, it will spark a reality with you that needs to be addressed now.

I found it a bit slow to start but I soon got swept up in it all! I didn't initially like Green Man but that soon changed and I desperately didn't want him to be caught. On the other hand I really wanted Tom to solve the mystery of Green Man!
There was one jarring error for me. As animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change why does Green Man eat a ham sandwich? If he cared enough about the environment to kill innocent people I'm pretty sure he would have been vegan!
Aside from that though it's a great read and hopefully might wake people up to the dire environmental situation we are in.

Political thriller which moved at a fast pace. Good characters who face the conflict of our times. The main characters agony over his choices was clear.

The Green Man is out there, committing crimes across the US in support of the environment. Tom Smith is a junior FBI analyst – can he help catch this undoubtedly brilliant killer? And does America actually want him caught?

That’s the set-up for this page-turning thriller. We join the action as Green Man launches an attack on a dam using a drone. People die in his attacks, yes, but the urgency of the planet’s situation means that collateral damage is unavoidable.

I confess that I did have problems with the dicey premise – especially so many in the environmental movement, as portrayed in this book, seemingly onside with with both Green Man’s goals, and his methods. It’s also the part of the book that didn’t ring true. However, supportive you might be of his aims, the deaths of innocent families on a boating holiday (in the case of the dam explosion) would surely outweigh those ideals in the minds of the public?

Nonetheless, I still enjoyed this book. It rips around the place, and of course our hero has the usual things to fight against. His father was also in the FBI so for Smith this is a family thing. Interestingly politics plays a dynamic here. An unnamed, very Trump-ian president is portrayed mostly as an idiot, although even the character here seems sharper than the real thing. There’s a very amusing tangent at one point where the president considering his own mortality, has no concerns whatsoever about what he leaves behind once he’s left this mortal coil.

Not everything holds together. Green Man’s morals are ethically suspect, and even US crime fighting agencies, who’s internecine battles are well known, surely wouldn’t be this bad? The environmental championing characters seem all too keen to own multiple vehicles criss-crossing the country using gasoline while thanking themselves for not flying. I mean, I suppose that’s true, but there’s not a Tesla to be found here.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this book, but I did. For slow summer days it gallops along and reaches a satisfactory conclusion.

This is not my usual genre but I have to admit I was hooked from the first chapter. The writing is very tight and the plot is intriguing. The attention to detail and the explanations to us, the readers, was sympathetic without assuming we were either total ignorants or highly educated in the various fields. I haven’t read David Klass before but will look out for him in future.

This book is really about a moral dilemma. The 'Green Man' is an environmental activist who has chosen the greater good over a few innocent deaths, by attacking six polluting and climate-harming sites at the expense of some innocent workers and others who happened to be nearby. He does have a conscience and suffers greatly for the loss of life, but has a strong belief that the end justifies the means.

Tom Smith is a newly-recruited FBI analyst who uses data and patterns to track and anticipate the Green Man's actions.

The plot is somewhat unusual in that the identity of the perpetrator and his family circumstances are known to the reader quite early on. Although the outcome is fairly predictable, the book is a very worthwhile read with good depth of characterisation, especially of Tom Smith. It might come across as a bit 'preachy' at times, but this is no bad thing and I learnt some interesting (worrying!) facts about fracking.

Out of Time is in fact a timely novel as it is a story of an eco warrior versus the powers that be. Although it contained quite a lot of scientific information regarding the environmental damage that is being done to our planet via the likes of fracking, it was not a difficult book to engage with. Indeed, given it's plot it was maybe too easy; there was no tension and no doubt as to how this would end.

Whilst I have environmental concerns myself I didn't for one minute feel pulled in by the morals of Mitch and Sharon. They seemed to be rather wooden characters and it was a little surprising really that Mitch should have the resolve to be Green Man. I was also somewhat surprised to find he was a meat eater!

It was an entertaining enough book but would probably make a much better film.
My thanks to Netgalley.

The Green Man is attacking sites in the US to highlight the damage done to the earth through climate change. All of his six attacks have led to innocent people, including children, being killed. Tom Smith is a new FBI computer analyst. He is sure that the task force set up to catch the Green Man is using the wrong tactics and tells Jim Brennan, the task force chief, exactly where they’re going wrong. Soon Tom is on the Green Man’s tail.

Lots of environmental and engineering information in this book. Easy enough to read but can’t say it was a real page turner.

Thanks to Netgalley, Michael Joseph and David Klass for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

The Green Man is a climate change activist who is damaging sites owned by non-green companies to draw attention to the dire state of our world. He justifies his actions and the occasional fatality as collateral damage for the greater good.
Tom Smith is an FBI agent, living in the shadow of his demanding father, who never acknowledged his talents.
These two men start on a collision course, when the Green Man attacks a dam, and Tom has an insight into how his mind works.
There are various other characters, both activists, and investigators, and we learn something of the Green Man’s past life.
There is also a lot about how big companies are putting profit before environment, and a lovely cameo of a President who doesn’t quite understand the issue, but likes to grandstand (entirely fictitious of course)
The book was a good read but, I couldn’t engage with any of the characters, and the plot seemed too neat and tidy with no real surprises, and a predictable end.
I felt there was a better story in there.

Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Random House for the opportunity to read this book.

This is a hugely entertaining eco-thriller, albeit with an occasionally overblown environmental message. The screenwriter background of the author shines through, there’s an emphasis on pace, plot and event at the expense of development of character (i think nearly everyone still alive is emotionally pretty much where they started), but i didn’t care. It’s a solid thriller, i rattled through it and enjoyed the twists and turns. Yes, the dialogue is a bit clunky but it will play well on the big screen with an earnest Hollywood type, and frankly there was no need to constantly refer to Green Man when we knew his name, but it doesn’t matter, its all good fun. The perfect beach read (if only i’d been on an eco-friendly beach holiday to read it).

Moral dilemmas abound in this well written and compelling novel. The Green Man is an eco-terrorist who is bombing high profile industrial sites closely associated with increasing global warming. When he strikes he kills innocent men and women. How can he reconcile that violence with his need to bring to the attention of the American public, that the planet is being destroyed? He has made it to the top of the FBI’s most wanted list and a young agent called Tom is trying to track him down. Tom, however, feels more than a little sympathy with the Green Man’s cause. The story is told from the viewpoint of both protagonists and there is quite a lot of soul searching on both sides.

This is a very timely novel which poses some challenging questions about how far an individual should go to try and save the world when it appears that parts of that world are just not listening. An intense game of cat and mouse plays out as Tom tries to find the Green Man before he can strike again. The characters feel really genuine and the subject matter is very well handled. The pace is good and I feel the ending is just about right.

Thank you NetGalley and Michael Joseph for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a book that can be read in two ways: for sure, there is a perfectly enjoyable thriller here with an unusual IT specialist cast in the unlikely role of hero; but there is also within the novel a not very subtle, and frankly dangerous, propaganda tool peddling overstated data straight out of the Extinction Rebellion playbook. It may be helpful to establish some credentials here; as a former teacher of the Physical Sciences and Graduate Chemical Engineer I am as aware as anyone of the compelling data supporting anthropogenic climate change. Any science teacher who has taught the volumetric composition of earth’s atmosphere since 1971 will be strikingly aware of the alarming rise in the proportion of carbon dioxide.
But - and it is a very big but - to suggest that the climate crisis warrants the kind of deadly terrorism at the heart of this book, and - as a scientist something I find troubling and distasteful - to interweave overblown statistics and data in a presumed attempt to make a more compelling case risks undermining the very cause that the author presumably supports. Given that the intended audience is very much the youth market this unbalanced approach leads to the same kind of unbalanced understanding of the complex issues involved that Greta Thunberg and her naive followers promote. The answers and solutions lie in democratic political decision making informed by science and engineering rather than hand wringing and superficial political gestures.
Overall, a disappointing book.

The Green Man is an environmental activist and on the most wanted list. He is one step ahead of those trying to find him. Tom new to the FBI with a high flying father who used to be in the FBI is given a chance to break the case. Will he able to do this, and who is the Green Man. Brilliant, fast paced and would recommend.

I was a little split on how to review this book. On the one hand I found it a great story with a 'nerd' as our hero, rookie FBI computer specialist, in the search for the most wanted criminal of the time. I enjoyed the story and the characters, particularly the relationships between Tom Smith and his father and how Tom reluctantly starts to become his father. At this point it is a great book and I would give it 5 stars. The book bangs a drum for environmental issues. In truth it does not preach and it does, probably as the author intended, raise awareness but it does paint him as something of an eco warrior. However I struggle to marry Tom's eco warrior beliefs and his actions so for this it loses a star from me. Highly recommended read.

What a fascinating and enthralling book.
I read and read and read some more so riveting was this book. I could not wait to read the next chapter so engrossed was I.
A really compelling read.

A very readable story of a really topical subject - the damage being caused by climate change and the frustration of environmental groups with the lack of action by governments. The central character, dubbed Green Man, is on his sixth and final mission to bring attention to the world of the eco crisis facing the environment before it is too late. He is conflicted because each eco terrorist attack he commits involves innocent lives being lost making him America's most wanted criminal. The storyline is fast-paced and thrilling when Green Man almost gets caught and realises the FBI are hot on his heels, in particular Tom Smith. Tom uses less orthodox detective methods as he is a computer programmer and soon spots a trend no one else has seen which enables him to identify exactly who Green Man is. My final thought on finishing the book - Is Green Man the villain or a modern day super hero?

Intelligently written and informative book about climate change that has been written as a FBI thriller. Because if that, I'm not convinced that it hasn't fallen between two poles. Hard to empathise with ant of the characters, with the possible exception of Tom. This shows the ethical dilemma of the big picture v collateral damage.

What a terrific book. Not only a cracking thriller but the most thought provoking book I've read in a long time when an environmental terrorist sets out to save the planet by destroying key targets. A rookie FBI computer analyst is hunting him and not only who understands how he thinks, but also shares his views on the environment.