Night Fall by Nelson DeMille Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Night Fall
Book Review: HOPRRIBLE HORRIBLE WORST ENDING EVER!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Matter of fact-there was no ending!!! What an easy out this author gave!! It seemed to me that the author did not know how to end the book-so he didn't. The book started out with a bang and kept going up until the last few chapters. I was so enthralled with the book, that I stayed up late into the early morning hours of a work night to finish reading the book because I so wanted to find out what actually happened (whether is was truth or not). What a waste of a talented author and a waste of a great story line. I was soooo incredibly disappointed with this ending that I will have a hard time picking up another Nelson Demille book ever again. I sure hope that he decides to revise the ending of this book and re-publish it. I feel cheated out of an ending. It left more questions than answers. What was the point of even writing this book if he wasn't even going to have an ending? I can't believe the editor and the publishing company even allowed this to go to print. I can't even begin to convey my disapointment and disillusionment with this book.Book Review: He just keeps getting better
Summary: 5 Stars
Read a library copy of the book first, then had to own this book. Nelson Demille never disappoints, he just keeps getting better. Just wish he would write faster. His next John Corey novel is being published in November, in time for my birthday, thank you, Nelson!Book Review: I'm a new Nelson Demille FAN!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
So I started reading "Night Fall" last night. It was such a page turner that I called in sick to work today. I read it all day and just finished reading it this evening! It is also important to add that I love my job - so for me to call in sick (first time in years!) just to read a book says a lot.
I haven't become so engrossed in a page-turning story in years. I won't waste your time going into the plot - you can get a good idea of that from the other reviews. I just wanted to let other's know what a fun ride this book was and that it has made me a new Nelson Demille fan!
Book Review: John Corey gets better and better!
Summary: 5 Stars
For the first time in a long and distinguished career of writing spellbinding thrillers, Nelson DeMille has built a novel around real life events - the horrific explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island in the summer of 1996, the dubious official government conclusion of a mechanical failure as the cause and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on Sept 11, 2001.
FBI Special Agent Kate Mayfield was part of the enormous multi-agency team of investigators assigned to the crash when it happened in 1996. But she never truly swallowed the official verdict of mechanical failure and it has eaten at her psyche for five years. Her superiors have given her a clear official warning that the investigation is closed and to put her nose where it doesn't belong would be a mistake - a career limiting move of the worst kind. Of course, this has done nothing more than convince her of the existence of the existence of a sinister cover-up. How high that cover-up goes is anyone's guess! So on the fifth anniversary of the crash following a moving memorial service on the beach, Kate spills the beans to her husband - former NYPD detective, John Corey, and fellow member of the federal ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force). She obviously knows her man. John Corey, authority phobic, loner, smart aleck and brilliant detective, is pathologically unable to ignore the bait that Kate dangles in front of his alert nose.
Corey's dogged pursuit of the truth leads him from the investigation of a missing video tape of the explosion to a climactic heart-stopping confrontation with the apparent principals of the entire cover up.
Obviously aware of the need to be sensitive to the facts of the deaths of the passengers of flight TWA Flight 800 and the horrifying terrorist destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, DeMille has managed to brilliantly tread a tightrope. He has allowed John Corey's black humour full rein throughout "Night Fall" but has also ensured that his character has matured as a result of his marriage to Kate Mayfield. He has developed a sensitivity that is actually quite moving at times and, I'll warn you in advance ... if you don't have a lump in your throat and a pounding pulse at the end of this novel, then your heart is made of stone and you've got ice in your veins!
What a story! I can't wait for the next novel in the John Corey franchise. Like Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, these stories are going from good to better with every outing. Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
Book Review: John Corey is brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
Far and away better than 'Plum Island' or even the engrossing 'Lion's Game' (which gives me cold chills when I think of when it was published and all that has happened since), 'Night Fall' tells the story of TWA flight 800, presenting the evidence with readable simplicity in all its contradictions and ambiguities. A truly tragic event, DeMille does homage to those 230 souls and their surviving friends and family, he treats their story with respect and courage. The fictional 'what if' part of the book is not outrageous at all, and gives DeMille a chance to write a memorable female character, Jill Winslow, who is both strong and fragile, fearful and courageous, and very VERY real. As for those reviewers who cavil at the ending, I feel John Corey would have some excoriating comments for those who, given the author's constant reminders of the date of the crash and the five year anniversary, could not see the shadow of the tragedy yet to come. That became clear as soon as Corey returned from Yemen, a little fast figuring over the calendar and voila! Yet, knowing something of what was to come in no way ruined the ending for me. In only a few words, DeMille brought back a flood of memories to me, and whether I wept for the real victims or the fictional ones, I was genuinely moved. If you like a 'good guy wins all' ending, you'll be disappointed I guess. If you like an ending where real life events dictate the direction of the story, you will be, as I am, filled with admiration for the author's deft handling of the same.