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This allegory of good and evil has a '60s counterculture mind-set. The military hides the truth about the deadly plague and strong-arms the populace like Nazi storm troopers. The whole disaster is portrayed as an environmental corrective to the evils unleashed by the military-scientifi c complex. (It can be no accident that the villain's name is Flagg.) The good people make their stand in bucolic Boulder, Colorado; the bad guys set up headquarters in Las Vegas. Characters periodically remind each other about the perils of remaking society -- "trying to re-create the world that damn near...
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