- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks (3 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751537209
- ISBN-13: 978-0751537208
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 705,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A traitor is working at the heart of the US Government's counter-terrorism unit, threatening to destroy the very organisation established to protect America from disaster.
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After 9/11 the US Government vowed that any similar attack on American soil would be thwarted, and the newly created Homeland Security knew that the only way to achieve this end was to have the very best intelligence. A group of elite officers from the police, the FBI and the CIA are recruited to form a special branch within the new organisation, operating in deep cover, their contact with each other and with other agencies strictly compartmentalised. One of these is Brian Doyle, an NYPD detective, chosen for his dogged determination and deductive instincts - instincts which serve him and his masters well, because at the heart of the organisation is one person ruthlessly using the carefully gathered intelligence to unleash a biological attack across the United States. And when Doyle does work out the truth it seems as though he is too late to stop it ...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Last Winter is, on the whole, a well written thriller dealing with the ever popular subject of the war on terror. It even tries a new approach by having as its central villain not a crazy islamic terrorist but a traitor in the midst of the very forces tasked with defending the USA.
Unfortunately this original approach also proves to be the source of Final Winter's greatest weakness. Whilst there is nothing wrong with the idea in itself, the problem is in the execution. By choosing to have one conspirator, working alone, yet implementing a plan that is fiendishly complex the author stretches the limits of what is believable. It requires a massive suspension of disbelief in order to accept that one person could successfully organise the plan they put in motion.
If the rest of the book were similarly fatastical this wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but with the remainder of the plot striving for versimiltude the key plot twist seems all the more unbelievable. This is a situation which only worsens as additional facts are revealed to the reader, until by the the end it becomes impossible to suspend disbelief and the whole story begins to sag under the implausibility of the central plot.
Brendan Dubois is a talented thriller writer, as his previous books 6 Day and Betrayed prove. He also has a solid track record with the theme of betrayal, which is common to both of these earlier works as well as Final Winter. In the latter case however, it is the handling of the betrayal that harms what is an otherwise entertaining book. Pity.
Format:Paperback
Sadly, I was very disappointed by this book. I've read a number of his novels and have generally enjoyed them. But this....I felt no suspense whatsoever. He built the characters up in such a predictable manner that you could tell what was going to happen to them, and the author's plans for their involvement in the script. It was also heavily laden with stereotypes, some of which actually I found myself laughing about. Really awful, really really bad.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you read the back cover and remember it the initial part of the story can seem ridiculously obvious but do not stop reading. There is method in the author's madness.
The story is about an USA intelligence group set up with minimal oversight within a day of 9/11. The group has powers far beyond anything previously allowed without having to answer for their actions but to a limited number of people and can override the USA Joint Chiefs of Staff. The key to the plot is what can happen is the watchers are not being watched properly and that a flawed recruitment process can result in a spectacular own goal.
The book starts slow, almost painfully so but keep going since the plot speeds up quite dramatically as the plan(s) come to a head. It does make a reader wonder if it is really that easy in a "no questions asked, the system knows best - yes sir" society to end up with such a massive problem. Anything is possible in life but this one highlights the way the system can be used against itself from the inside. I like the way some of the characters behaviour is illustrated later on to prove how the break a strong chain.
A good read. DuBois has produced another credible What If book.
The story is about an USA intelligence group set up with minimal oversight within a day of 9/11. The group has powers far beyond anything previously allowed without having to answer for their actions but to a limited number of people and can override the USA Joint Chiefs of Staff. The key to the plot is what can happen is the watchers are not being watched properly and that a flawed recruitment process can result in a spectacular own goal.
The book starts slow, almost painfully so but keep going since the plot speeds up quite dramatically as the plan(s) come to a head. It does make a reader wonder if it is really that easy in a "no questions asked, the system knows best - yes sir" society to end up with such a massive problem. Anything is possible in life but this one highlights the way the system can be used against itself from the inside. I like the way some of the characters behaviour is illustrated later on to prove how the break a strong chain.
A good read. DuBois has produced another credible What If book.
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