The Last Albatross

• Jemma Elizabeth Hardey: is wife to Ryn Hardey. After finding out that Ryn and Hercus Barges stole plutonium from Maralinga, she enters her name into the Death Lottery and is haunted by emails encouraging her to commit suicide, like thousands of others around the world. She returns home to Ryn where they are chased and tracked. Jemma is a timid character who grows with confidence throughout the novel.
• Ryn Hardey: is the husband of Jemma Hardey. He steals some plutonium from Maralinga with Hercus Barges, a dominant friend from university. Years later he and his wife are threatened by desperate green cults, determined to get their hands on the explosive material.
• Hercus Barges:
• Levi Seth:
• Ulf Bamert:

Jackie Cassada said in her review for Library Journal that "the author of The View from the Mirror crafts a chilling sf suspense story set against a backdrop of 21st-century environmental depletion and cultural degeneration. First published in Australia, Irvine's latest novel, the first in a trilogy of eco-thrillers, portrays a frighteningly plausible near future".^[1]

• The Last Albatross (November 2000)
• Terminator Gene (April 2003)
• The Life Lottery (August 2004)

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