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<\/a><\/p>\n108: An Eco-Thriller <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>by Dheepa R. Maturi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n GFB Seattle, 2025<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-964721-76-7 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-964721-77-4 ISBN (eBook): 978-1-964721-78-1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 108: An Eco-Thriller <\/i>by Deepa Maturi is set in the near future. Climate change and pollution have made respirator masks and supplemental oxygen necessary. Poor stewardship of natural resources has shrunk farmland to the bare minimum needed to feed Earth\u2019s population. A powerful international corporation plans to release chemicals simultaneously into the remaining farmland to increase yields several-fold. However, in five years, the chemicals will kill the network of fungal mycelia and tree roots that makes the soil fertile and lead to worldwide famine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bayla is a young ecologist, who emigrated from southwestern India to the U.S. as a young orphan. She has forgotten her ties to an ancient, hidden society, 108, that protects the unseen network that binds the land, water, sky and living things together. She is called back to India in a last-ditch effort to prevent the world-wide catastrophe using her mystical connection to the web of life and the other members of 108.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The world-building is vivid and specific. Bayla and the members of 108 have a strong connection to the world and each other. Hindu ritual and mythology overlap with yoga, meditation, and other spiritual practices that contribute to that sense of interconnectedness and seeking. However, to awaken and accept her ability to bring people together to make change she has to work through the trauma of abandonment and grief she felt when she was sent away from her family and community.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The author\u2019s writing is easy to read and engaging. She includes information about ecology, e.g. mycelial-tree root interdependency. There is plenty of action: the novel\u2019s titleEco-Thriller<\/i> is appropriate. There are enough loose ends to suggest there will be a sequel to look forward to. Recommended.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reviewed by Robert D. Yee<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 108: An Eco-Thriller by Dheepa R. Maturi GFB Seattle, 2025 ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-964721-76-7 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-964721-77-4 ISBN (eBook): 978-1-964721-78-1 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition 108: An Eco-Thriller by Deepa Maturi is set in the near future. Climate change and pollution have made respirator masks and supplemental oxygen necessary. Poor stewardship of natural<\/p>\n