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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Combustion
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'Los Angeles. Traffic clogs the streets. Smog chokes the city. And eco-terrorist Zac Bunsen wants to burn it all down.

He releases the Swarm, an airborne nanotech virus that targets combustion engines and detonates their fuel supplies. It is spectacularly, appallingly successful.

Terror and chaos reign as the City of Angels explodes. Every vehicle is now a devastating bomb and every freeway a war zone littered with bodies and twisted wrecks.

NASA astronaut Judd Bell and his best mate, Aussie chopper pilot Corey Purchase, are caught in the middle of the crisis with a blue heeler and a canister of counteragent. Together they must stop Bunsen before he brings the planet to its knees.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books , 2013 .
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      Extent: 328p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 24 July 2013
      ISBN: 1742537650, 9781742537658
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2014 .
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      Extent: 368p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 10/07/2014
      ISBN: 9780143567011
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Works about this Work

Book Review – Combustion by Steve Worland Joanne Peulen , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2013;
— Review of Combustion Steve Worland , 2013 single work novel
Aussie Take on Action Role Elaine Fry , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 October 2013; (p. 6)
— Review of Combustion Steve Worland , 2013 single work novel
New Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 October 2013; (p. 23)
— Review of White Light Mark O'Flynn , 2013 selected work short story ; Savage Tide Greg Barron , 2013 single work novel ; Holy Bible Vanessa Russell , 2013 single work novel ; Combustion Steve Worland , 2013 single work novel
Battle Los Angeles Karen Hardy , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 14 September 2013;
New Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 October 2013; (p. 23)
— Review of White Light Mark O'Flynn , 2013 selected work short story ; Savage Tide Greg Barron , 2013 single work novel ; Holy Bible Vanessa Russell , 2013 single work novel ; Combustion Steve Worland , 2013 single work novel
Aussie Take on Action Role Elaine Fry , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 October 2013; (p. 6)
— Review of Combustion Steve Worland , 2013 single work novel
Book Review – Combustion by Steve Worland Joanne Peulen , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2013;
— Review of Combustion Steve Worland , 2013 single work novel
Battle Los Angeles Karen Hardy , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 14 September 2013;
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