- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First U.K edition (5 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316646458
- ISBN-13: 978-0316646451
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 428,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Brendan DuBois is an award-winning US author of mystery stories: this alternate-world thriller is very much in the tradition of Robert Harris's Fatherland. The striking blurb line: "Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them". History went awry in this world's Cuba crisis, leading to a 1962 nuclear war that devastated Russia, crippled America and left Britain a major world power smugly giving aid to the USA. Cut to 1972 Boston and ex-soldier Carl Landry, now a newspaper reporter whose coverage of a routine murder is suppressed by military censors. He's unwisely curious, investigates further and inevitably stirs up a hornets' nest. Attacks, deaths and disappearances follow. With a new-found girlfriend--an English Times reporter who is not all she seems--Landry uncovers a succession of red-hot secrets about abandoned New York, perfidious British and military plotting, and crucial documents coveted by several factions with different beliefs about their contents. Is Kennedy unjustly despised for starting World War Three? Is the rumour that he's still alive just this timeline's version of the Elvis myth? After building up terrific tension, DuBois delivers satisfying answers. Grimly plausible (apart from a few lapses in "British" dialogue) and worthy of the Fatherland comparisons. --David Langford
LEE CHILD, author DIE TRYING & KILLING FLOOR
"RESURRECTION DAY is the best 'what if' novel in years"
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing mix of suspense and alternative history,
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This review is from: Resurrection Day (Hardcover)
The Cuban Missile Crisis ranks as the most terrifying moment of the Cold War, the point when the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to waging a nuclear war. In this novel, Brendan DuBois offers a terrifying speculation how it might have turned out, with a postwar America still recovering from a "limited" attack that killed millions and turned the country over to a quasi-military regime. DuBois' concept is well thought out, from a resurgent British Empire filling the vacuum created by the demise of the two superpowers to the legend created around the possible survival of John F. Kennedy, a figure reviled for plunging the world into war.Yet for a work of alternative history to succeed, it isn't enough simply to have an intriguing premise. The story within the book needs to be strong, and it is here where DuBois's book stands out from most alternative history novels. His plot, which follows a reporter whose investigation of a seemingly mundane murder leads him to the conspiracies which form the foundation of the post-war America, is exciting, with realistic characters that readers can relate to struggling to survive in this nightmarish America. All of this is told in a fast-paced, gripping narrative that make for great reading.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great for Alternative History Fans!,
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This review is from: Resurrection Day (Paperback)
OK, I admit I'm a bit of a fan of this genre (if the alternative history novel is a genre!). 'Resurrection Day' is a spy story/thriller/romance against the background of a devastated America 10 years after a limited nuclear war in 1962 sparked by the Cuban Missile Crisis.It's not as good as the marvellous 'Fatherland' and has possibly been written with one eye on a film script. Nevertheless, it is a real page turner. I found the descriptions of the war and it's aftermath quite harrowing and the historical scenarios well painted. The characters were somewhat 2 dimensional but served to drive the plot very effectively. All in all, a good read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Clever, very clever,
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This review is from: Resurrection Day (Paperback)
'What if' books are some of the most dificult to write and still retain a sense of authenticity.Dubois manages to create an alternate history which is both believeable and varied and keeps you turning pages without doubting the environment within which it is set. Full marks.
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