The oil crisis has begun! Kevin’s classic eco-thriller ILL WIND, written with Doug Beason, was reissued by Tor Books in March 2007. Originally published in 1995, ILL WIND tells of the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environment damage—a PR disaster—the multinational oil company releases an untested “designer microbe” to break up the spill. An oil-eating microbe designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and, of course, plastic.

What the company didn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air. But when every car in the Bay Area turns up with an empty gas tank, they begin to suspect something is terribly wrong. And when, in just a few days, every piece of plastic in the world has dissolved, it’s too late.