Ian Slater's latest thriller, WWIII: Choke Point (Ballantine/Random House $10), prophesizes a terrorist attack on the Canadian and U.S. Maritimes. "A Greyhound bus can cross Canada faster than one of our Sea King helicopters!"; warns a political scientist. "If you can't get the Pooh-Bahs moving, the next best thing is to alert the man and woman in the street."; A former Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau defense officer living in Vancouver, Slater has penned more than 20 military thrillers. 0-345-45377-8