Who was this Rita Ten Grieve?
Greenpeace operative? Point person for some mysterious, deep-state conspiracy or NOAA-led, wild-eyed crusade? Ghostly emissary from the datasphere, wherever that might be? Or just a crazy stalker, a crackpot on a mission? That's what Jake Krimmer, Rita's latest "client," wants to know, as Rita coaxes him into playing her "little game of grieves."
Jake's making a fortune by predicting the calamitous effects of "weird weather." He'd sooner forswear beef, take cold showers, and drive around in a battery-powered go-kart than be subjected to another "grieve." On the other hand, Jake isn't entirely insensible to Rita's charms. Or to her ability to make him see the truth: how he was helping to destroy both the planet and his relationship with Samantha, his unerring meteorologist and secret weapon-and the woman he's reluctant to admit he loves. Bestselling author James Patterson calls
The Eleventh Grieve
, "A clever, compelling fable that puts a new spin on global warming and the fate of our small planet."
Kirkus Reviews
says, "
A Christmas Carol
meets
An Inconvenient Truth
."