"It was Uncle Tom's Cabin, not economic data, that turned the page on slavery. It was The Grapes of Wrath, not demographic reports that opened a nation's eyes to Dust Bowl dislocation. Out of that tradition comes Michael J. Fitzgerald's The Fracking War. Here, within a smoldering crucible of social crisis, is a tale of power, money, fateful choices, and consciences aroused. If you like your drill rigs served up within the context of a fast-moving plot line, you've got what you want right in your hands."  —Sandra Steingraber, author, Living Downstream and Raising Elijah. In The Fracking War, veteran reporter Jack Stafford relocates from California to rural Upstate New York and discovers a citizen rebellion that models itself after Edward Abbey's 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, where activists use sabotage to defend their land against what they perceive as industrial terrorism by the gas industry's controversial method of hydrofracking for natural gas and oil.