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We All Fall Down [Kindle Edition]

Simon Wood

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Hayden Duke is a young man on the fast track. He's just signed on with Marin Design Engineering to work on a very high-level project. But before Hayden started, one of MDE's employee's committed suicide. And he's not the only one. Is it the pressure? Or is there some other connection? Has Hayden Duke just put himself on the fast track to an early death?

Praise for We All Fall Down:

“Action packed and intelligent, We All Fall Down, is Simon Wood's best book yet. This is what they mean when they say a book is a thriller.”
— Crimespree Magazine

"Simon Wood has talent to spare, and in We All Fall Down he's crafted an entertaining and suspenseful novel that once opened simply won't close until the last nail-biting page. A terrific premise executed to perfection by a supremely gifted writer.”
— Jason Pinter, author of The Mark

“Simon Wood never disappoints. From the shocking introduction to the rewarding completion, Wood’s storytelling is tremendous.”
— Fresh Fiction

“Simon Wood provides a dynamite suspense story.”
— The Midwest Book Review

"We All Fall Down continues Wood’s sharp eye for a thrilling ride that doesn’t rely on cheap outs, but creative storytelling.”
— Bookgasm

"I would love this book to be made into a movie.”
— Bestsellersworld.com

"The action becomes fast and furious and one just has to hang on for the ride.”
— Spinetingler Magazine

Synopsis

Ambitious Hayden Duke is beginning to wonder if he has put himself on the fast track to an early death when he signs on with a research firm and discovers that employees are dying in accidents or committing suicide. Original.

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 559 KB
  • Print Length: 369 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0843960531
  • Publisher: Leisure (5 Feb 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004MDLXNO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #161,121 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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52 of 57 people found the following review helpful
exciting enthralling thriller 29 Jun 2008
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Design engineering contractor Hayden Duke is pleased to have been hired by Marin Design Engineering for a short term project. He hopes that his work will impress the firm's bosses so they would hire him for a full time position. Before he was selected, another contractor walked into the ocean and drowned. The witnesses who called 911 heard the man mumble he did a horrible thing and must pay the price.

The person who hired Hayden is his friend Shane Fallon who is glad to have his pal on board. A couple of days after Hayden starts working Shane sends him an email with an attachment that he cannot open. Hayden calls Shane, who warns him to delete it. Hayden goes to Shane's house only to find a hallucinating man who is locked inside his apartment seeking electronic bugs. He kills himself and the autopsy reveals a bruise on his hand like the man who committed suicide in the ocean. Shane's sister Rebecca and Hayden believe there is more to his apparent suicide and it is linked in some manner to the project. When the project is completed, everyone associated with it except Hayden and Rebecca die in an arson fire. Trying to stay alive and elude police and fire officials' suspicions, the pair seek the truth, which may prove deadly for them.

WE ALL FALL DOWN is an exciting enthralling thriller that focuses on two characters, Hayden and Rebecca, who obstinately and perhaps foolishly are determined to learn what is going on. They refuse to quit their amateur sleuthing although each step especially false leads they take opens up additional cans of worms and exponentially increases the danger to them. Simon Wood provides a dynamite suspense story as the audience is beguiled into anticipating what next.

Harriet Klausner
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
A Fast Read But Too Neatly Wrapped Up 21 Jun 2010
By William M Miller - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Simon Wood is a new horror/thriller author for me, so I wasn't sure what to expect. The reviews of his books seemed quite complimentary, so I decided to give him a shot. I'm happy to say, for the most part, the praise Mr. Wood has been getting is genuinely earned.

Wood has a very interesting premise here and a no-mercy attitude when it comes to killing off characters - which I love. But I would say his real strength is the characters and fast pacing of the story. In the first half of the book, Wood writes with just enough unpredictability that you find yourself reading a few more chapters before bed than you had expected to read.

One of my criticisms is that sometimes characters make decisions that are not quite consistent with that person's motives. For instance, a character Rebecca decides it is incredibly important to visit a farmhouse, and after going through a lot of trouble to get there, gets spooked and turns around empty handed. Huh? This doesn't make any sense from her point of view, but I do understand it bridges the scene after it involving the farmhouse with another character. Still, I think it could have been more thought out and came off as a bit lazy by the author. I also thought the "terrorist" attack wasn't very realistic when the FBI let the suspects walk out the door. In reality, especially in post 9/11, a hundred-person team would be investigating the incident and everyone involved, not simply releasing suspects on the whim of a lowly detective.

The ending wraps up neatly, if a bit too conveniently. I also had a problem with our main character not taking advantage of beating the living daylights out of someone when he had a chance at the end - especially when he had nothing to lose. It would have been cathartic, if even just for us, the reader, to see that happen. So in closing, the secret revelations the book promised ended up being pretty standard and predictable, but it was a fast enough read to garner a mild recommendation.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
An exciting page-turner of a thriller 19 Nov 2009
By Sheila L. Beaumont - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Simon Wood's WE ALL FALL DOWN is a true thriller, a suspenseful, fast-paced, action-filled tale with earthshaking consequences at stake. The story involves a young man, Hayden Duke, who has hired on as a contractor for a government project at Marin Design Engineering; some mysterious apparent suicides of employees of the firm; a disastrous, fatal arson fire at MDE headquarters; and the efforts of Hayden and Rebecca, sister of one of the purported suicides, to find out exactly what's behind all these deaths and to thwart whatever possibly world-endangering scientific deviltry is going on.

Hayden and Rebecca are sympathetic, rather naive characters that I cared about. They did have quite a few TSTL (Too Stupid To Live) and NTB (Not Too Bright) moments, enough to make me fear for their lives. But all this certainly did make for an enthralling, entertaining read and a really thrilling climax. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I recommend it to anyone who likes a good thriller with a strong, complex plot, plenty of twists and turns, and excellent characters, good and bad. This is the first book by this author I've read, but definitely not the last. I'm now looking forward to reading his earlier book PAYING THE PIPER.

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