Night Fall by Nelson DeMille Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Night Fall
Book Review: A good book by a great writer
Summary: 4 Stars
Nelson DeMille's "Night Fall" takes on Flight 800 and the mystery behind the crash. John Corey, a anti-terrorist task force member, finds himself in the middle of the investigation along with an explicit video made by a couple who captured the plane explosion while in the middle of their passions on the beach.
It's a good read and John Corey is a great character. The conspiracy theorists will enjoy the book though I have to admit, however, that I anticipated the ending of the book way too early. Still, it's worth the read as DeMille continues to be one of the best writers around.
Book Review: A plausible "what if" story
Summary: 5 Stars
DeMille's novel delivers equal parts action and conspiracy theory in a taut plot that involves the possible connection between terrorism and the deaths of 230 people aboard TWA Flight 800, which exploded mid-flight near Long Island on July 17, 1996.
Detective John Corey (from DeMille's "Plum Island" and "The Lion's Game" novels) returns with his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, who's asked him to help look into some questions that have come up five years post-crash. Five years post 1996 brings us to mid-summer 2001, and everyone knows what event is yet to come. The final chapters alone are worth the cost of the book as a lot of loose ends are inconviently tied up permanently.
DeMille slipped with his domestic violence novel "Spencerville" but here he's at the top of his game. I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but DeMille presents information gleaned from official reports, witness interviews and other sources and makes it not only plausible but probable.
Book Review: Amazing read
Summary: 5 Stars
DeMille starts off by explaining that he has taken certain literary license with the facts of the TWA 800 crash. The book was suspenseful and addictive. If you don't read this book, you're really missing out. The best part is, you'll never see the ending coming.Book Review: An Excellent Novel Around Factual Events
Summary: 5 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Writing a gripping piece of fiction amid factual events can't be easy. The book is masterfully done.
I'd like to defend the ending of the book against those who found the ending very disappointing. I was surprised by the ending & didn't see it coming until just before the event happened. Anyone who could have proven the missile theory of flight 800 is vaporized along with the evidence. The ending takes the reader out of the novel back into reality which smacks of cover-up & is the authors vision of why we'll never know the truth. The entire book revolves around this piece of evidence & by a twist of fate it's lost forever.
If you don't look at the ending as a quick way to end a story and see the ending for what it was intended, you'll love the book
Book Review: And the Point Was ... What?
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a big fan of Nelson DeMille, and I normally get so involved in a good book that I will read through the night. No danger of that with "Night Fall." Unlike "Gold Coast", "Charm School", "Up Country", "Word of Honor", and other fine DeMille novels, I had no trouble putting this book down at any time, and felt no urge to pick it up again. But, eventually I did, even though it was fairly obvious where the characters were going to be at the end of the book.
However, I thought that there would be something that went along with the ending event to tie up the story and the "point" of the book -- but there was no point, and there was no ending of any consequence. There was not even a solid basis, so far as I could determine, for Dectective/Agent Corey to conclude exactly who of the people on "the other side" died at the end. I kept thinking as I got one-fourth of the way through the book, half way, and then three-fourths of the way that at any moment now something is going to happen. But it never did.
On what to me is a positive note, Corey is less obnoxious here than he was in "Plum Island" and some of the other John Corey books. Sure, he's smart and dedicated, and is basically a decent person, but his complusive need to make smart and even abusive remarks to most of the people who he encounters, especially other men, wears thin -- even to me, just a reader, and I don't have to tolerate him in person! But, yes, DeMille still manages to vest Corey with enough humorous and occasionally insightful remarks to remind you that you are reading a Nelson DeMille book.
On the whole, though, I prefer my main characters to be someone who I would like to hang out with and who I can admire. I would not really care to hang out with John Corey.
P.S. It always concerns me when the author of a supposedly well-researched book gets some fairly basic facts wrong, as DeMille did in this book with the types of surface-to-air missiles used by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam conflict. True, this had no connection to the main story, but if you get one thing wrong, who's to say that you didn't get other things wrong as well?