Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48564 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-11
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

The Guardian
'Nelson deMille at full tilt with another engaging, exciting and impeccably researched thriller'

Synopsis
Five years after the horrific crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island, which killed 230 people, John Corey is inadvertently caught up in the now-closed case by his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government's findings of mechanical failure is wrong. The FBI don't take kindly to the case being looked into again and, as John Corey's instincts and investigations clearly show anomalies, he and Kate are sent off to the Yemen and Tanzania for a month or so each, as punishment. On his return, John is not put off - he has ten days' leave. Ten days in which to avoid the FBI and to find that elusive video tape taken by two adulterous lovers on the beach which may - or may not - show a sea-to-air missile racing up to hit the TWA Flight 800...An exciting, edge-of-the-seat thriller, this book is a Nelson DeMille's best to date.

Customer Reviews

Night Fall or Plot Fall
I agree with many of the other commnets and complaints. I read this book on holiday and was really looking forward to the end and how everything panned out. Bloody ridiculous just wiping out the whole story and any explanation of the original crime. Reminded me of how Bobby Ewing re-appeared in Dallas and they wiped a whole series on the basis it was Pamelas dream!

I don't think John Corey has the tape though, both copies were not on him. Again, when I read that he didn't post it to someone, I did get suspicious that the plot was falling to pieces.

The last pages require a re-write with some more intelligence, I thought the end to Da-Vinci code was poor, but this was worse.

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