Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203665 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 704 pages

Esquire
'Gripping'

Customer Reviews

I DON'T UNDERSTAND??
This was the first book by the author that i had read.
All the way through i thought was great stuff, humour, plot, fabulous....till i came to the end.....what a crap ending, author needs to have a little word with himself, very dissapointing end to a very promising story.....

predictable characters and awful awful ending
This book follows the story of the crash/explosion of the TWA flight in the USA a few years back. The story itself is quite reasonable and you are never quite sure where fact and fiction merge. essentially the book tries to uncover whether the plane blew up or was shot out of the sky (and if so why).

There are a number of problems with this book however. Firstly, 'the bad guys' from CIA etc are just a little too predictable for spook type characters. Secondly, John Cory is thoroughly dislikable. I can find no redeaming features about him at all. Demille has tried to create a kind of renegade cop who plays by his own rules but gets results type character. sadly the guy is abrassive and I just didnt like him.

The biggest criticism, however, as the previous reviewers have already pointed out is that the ending is awful. It was simply terrible and completely unbelievable and I got the impression that the ending was an after thought that came to the author at the very end of the book. The ending is so bad that it spoils everything that had gone before

Dustbin
I read this book, and really enjoyed it, till the last 15 pages where l was expecting Nash and his CIA mates to get the their due desert, and thought everything would be revealed. I actually thought the reason the plane as shot down, as there was a terrorist on board, and they wanted to cover it up.
His investigation into the book was great, how he deduced where the tape was brilliant.
But where was the ending?
All the prime suspects were killed by a plane hitting the twin towers. So no witness's. But Correy still had his tape, why didn't he do more, there was no rhyme or reason why the flight 800 was blown up, furthermore why didn't/wasn't action taken with Corry's copy? It's as though it was finished off in a hurry I couldn't agree more with the last review who said he thanks his son for the ending, PLEASE don't ask your son for any more endings, specially as there isn't one.
Yes l may have spoilt this book, but it needs spoiling because its spoilt at the the end.