- Paperback: 418 pages
- Publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd (Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856355349
- ISBN-13: 978-1856355346
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 11.4 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,466,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Father Frank Kane, filming a TV series on 'Great Catastrophes in History', grows convinced that people on the verge of extinction, as in Pompeii, consciously ignore all the signs of their impending doom. In Ireland Garda Det-Sgt Stokes keeps encountering references to a shadowy figure called Omar. A young Saudi Arabian disappears from Ennis hospital, and later his body appears in a trawler's fishing net. In Leeds, journalist Meg Watkins is assigned to research Freshpark Nuclear Plant in Cumbria. Initially impressed, she gradually grows horrified at its safety record. Meanwhile, Sheik Aboud is secretly training terrorist pilots to fly hijacked planes into Europe's nuclear plants, using flight simulators at his walled County Galway residence. Gradually Stokes closes in on the sheik as he feels some catastrophe is pending. So does Fr Frank Kane, for different reasons. And Meg Watkins is convinced that terrorists are going after Freshpark. Convergence comes when both Kane and Stokes hear Meg say on a TV talk-show that terrorists could hijack a plane out of Ireland and fly it into Freshpark. But it's all too late. Omar has been in Co Galway all the time, as a respected citizen, and now does precisely what Meg had feared. The consequences are horrific...
About the Author
A native of Northern Ireland, David Rice has worked as a journalist on three continents. He was in Beijing during the massacre of Tiananmen Square, and later returned to secretly interview 400 of the survivors. This led to two books, Dragon's Brood and the novel Song of Tiananmen Square. Rice's No.1 best-selling Shattered Vows led to the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary, Priests of Passion, which he presented. He now lives in Co Tipperary.
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Format:Paperback
Okay, first off I found this book in a hotel lobby where the previous owner(s?) had obviously decided it was not worth keeping. Regardless, I had a 8 hour ferry ride ahead of me and needed something to read. I have been travelling for the past 3 months, and read over 20 something books in that time. And when comparing this to the rest of my life and the books I have read, I find it amazing that this book, and only this book, is the first book that I have ever wanted to come online and hopefully prevent people from reading or buying it. IT IS THAT BAD.
It got to a stage where 100 pages in I said to my other half, this is so bad I have to finish it.
I don't know what it was, but the whole thing just reeked of amateur hour dispite the books assertations that the author was already a literary figure.
The worst things? As follows:
Repetition of characters emotions, in case you didn't get it the previous sentence.
Lazy story telling, in the form of effectively bullet pointing key story parts rather than developing them
Introduction of useless plot devices. Developing arc's for characters which need not be told.
Endless plugging at what the author believes will be points of serious concern/interest for the reader. It just falls flat and overblown.
And the worst?? well don't read on unless you want to actually read it, but we get 2 pages at the end inferring that the first 400 pages were another persons fantasy story written and based on findings etc.
Anyway its clear the author is a journalist. The paragraphs/whole book is written like a newspaper article. SHOCKING HEADLINE!!!! Followed by an explanation which kind of dumbs the point down and makes it seem not that interesting, so what do we do now... SHOCKING HEADLINE!!!
Don't read this book.
How people can write glowing reviews for a doomsday/thriller book like this I will never know. 10 pages of the Road by Cormac McCarthy, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, or 1984 by George Orwell is infinitely more terrifying than anything presented in this book.
It got to a stage where 100 pages in I said to my other half, this is so bad I have to finish it.
I don't know what it was, but the whole thing just reeked of amateur hour dispite the books assertations that the author was already a literary figure.
The worst things? As follows:
Repetition of characters emotions, in case you didn't get it the previous sentence.
Lazy story telling, in the form of effectively bullet pointing key story parts rather than developing them
Introduction of useless plot devices. Developing arc's for characters which need not be told.
Endless plugging at what the author believes will be points of serious concern/interest for the reader. It just falls flat and overblown.
And the worst?? well don't read on unless you want to actually read it, but we get 2 pages at the end inferring that the first 400 pages were another persons fantasy story written and based on findings etc.
Anyway its clear the author is a journalist. The paragraphs/whole book is written like a newspaper article. SHOCKING HEADLINE!!!! Followed by an explanation which kind of dumbs the point down and makes it seem not that interesting, so what do we do now... SHOCKING HEADLINE!!!
Don't read this book.
How people can write glowing reviews for a doomsday/thriller book like this I will never know. 10 pages of the Road by Cormac McCarthy, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, or 1984 by George Orwell is infinitely more terrifying than anything presented in this book.
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