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...nation's recoverable coal, with Montana and Wyoming containing the richest reserves. Wyoming alone has eight times as much low-sulfur coal as West Virginia and Kentucky combined. At the moment, the Powder River Basin straddling Montana and Wyoming attracts the most mining. Arco, Exxon, Sun and Kerr-McGee are already clawing the land, while Shell, Mobil and Peabody are laying plans to share in the basin's 40 billion tons of recoverable coal...
...possibility of a world petroleum shortage was enough to cause a temporary bull market for oil companies that enjoy extensive reserves outside the Middle East. Many oil stocks on the New York Stock Exchange last week rolled to new yearly highs. Among them: Amerada Hess, Atlantic Richfield, Kerr-McGee, Shell, Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and Standard Oil Co. of Ohio...
Rebecca, Follett's 13th novel (several were written under pen names), combines the authentic tension of the times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...
Despite the pseudoscientific hokum, a vital ingredient to roman a la King, Firestarter- a bestseller weeks before its official publication date- is the most realistic, even credible novel he has written. Andy McGee and Charlie come across as tender and courageous victims; even some of the stooges, notably a half Cherokee named John Rainbird, show complexity and charm. Though he is not an elegant writer - he is addicted to such objurgations as "You blind, obsessive fools" - Maine-based Stephen King is a superb plotter with a fine eye for terrain and, indeed, pyrotechnical detail...
Firestarter Charlie McGee, with all her destructive powers, is one of the most touching waifs in current popular fiction...