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What if the next great weapon attacks not people, but the grain that keeps them alive?
In The Green Rust, Edgar Wallace builds a thriller around a threat to the food nations depend on. Rust, a plant disease that attacks grain, becomes a weapon. Behind the danger lies a hidden scheme, protected by secrecy. Those hunting it face stakes that reach far beyond a single crime.
The chase turns on a question: what happens when knowledge of nature falls into the wrong hands? Science promises better harvests, yet it can also threaten them. Wallace keeps that danger close through scheming, pursuit and quick chapters, giving the story a sense that time is running short.
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- A harvest under threat Feel the urgency of a mystery in which the food supply itself is at risk.
- Secrets worth pursuing Follow determined hunters toward a hidden scheme whose planners depend on keeping their purpose concealed.
- Science turned against life Explore the danger of knowledge used to destroy the crops it might otherwise help protect.
- A swiftly moving chase Let quick chapters and clear stakes carry you through a tale of secrecy and pursuit.
- Danger beyond one victim Enter a crime story that makes the safety of the harvest a matter of worldwide concern.
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- A crop disease becomes a weapon
- Hidden schemes call for determined hunters
- Science and power make a dangerous mix
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A crop disease becomes a weapon
The title names a real kind of danger. Rusts are fungus diseases that attack cereal plants such as wheat, and farmers have feared them for centuries. Wallace takes that familiar fear and asks what would happen if someone could harness it for their own ends.
The idea would have felt close to home in 1919. Europe had just come through a war in which food supply had been a serious worry, and people remembered shortages and rationing. A book about a threat to the harvest touched a nerve that readers already had.
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Edgar Wallace
1875–1932 · British crime writer
Edgar Wallace was a hugely prolific British writer of thrillers and crime fiction who later co-created the story for King Kong. The Adventures of Heine follows Heine, a German secret agent, through a series of comic misadventures in Britain during the First World War.
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What is The Green Rust about?
It is a thriller about a secret scheme that threatens the world's grain supply. Wallace builds the plot on the idea that a plant disease could be used as a weapon, and that a few people must stop it.
What does the green rust mean in the title?
Rust is a kind of fungus disease that attacks cereal crops such as wheat. In the book the green rust stands for a threat to the harvest and so to the food of many nations.
When was The Green Rust written?
It was published in 1919, soon after the First World War. It is a work of fiction, not a true story, though it draws on real fears about food supply and the power of science.
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