The Monkey Wrench Gang

By Edward Abbey

The Southwest is being developed and there's some people who don't like it. They don't like the roads, the dams, the power plants, the mines. So they get together and try to stop it in whatever small way they can. They're the Monkey Wrench Gang and they specialize in sabotaging road-building equipment although what they would really like to do is blowup some bridges and take out some dams. But since there are only four of them the most they can do is be a pain in the ass to the road construction outfits.
Naturally, their activities attract the attention of the authorities and they come looking for the gang who find themselves fleeing on foot across some of the hottest, driest and most rugged country the USA has to offer.

I didn't really care for the Monkey Wrench gang. I thought they were a bunch of creeps and fools. I understand they didn't like what was happening to their beloved wild lands but they way they went about it just didn't make sense. Bottom line, they accomplished nothing more than to slow things down briefly and mainly just ended up getting themselves into trouble.
Besides that, I found the story rather boring and tedious and didn't really get into it until the last part where the gang is fleeing in the desert. That part was really good but the rest of the story just dragged along.
So, I didn't like the characters or their actions and mostly I found the story rather dull til almost the end.