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Resurrection Day (Hardcover)

by Brendan DuBois (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (5 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316646458
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316646451
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,824,525 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing mix of suspense and alternative history, 8 Aug 2004
By Mark Klobas (Tempe, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
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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.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Alternative History Fans!, 14 Dec 2000
By D. Melbourne "dmelbourne" (UK) - See all my reviews
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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.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wahey for America! Boo to England!, 4 Dec 1999
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A distracting and entertaining read, rather like a pantomine in that you cheer the good guys and hiss at the villans. Who, for the most part, are British ( busy rebuliding their empire).The happy ending is a little too simple, and you are left feeling that perhaps a Stephen King type ending would be more appropriate for a book this dark. Or at least an uncertain John Wyndam type ending. Still, a reasonable plot and an Independence Day type pleasure at America's premier Cities being reduced to dust do make it worthwhile.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good premise, needed stronger story
I must admit I expected this to be a hunt for Kennedy and vindicate him from being a war criminal kind of book, but was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mark Mcclelland

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and interesting
This is a wonderful book. As an alternative history piece, it stands comparison with the two greatest single volume works in the genre, "SS-GB" by Len Deighton and "The Guns of... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Bill Kelly

4.0 out of 5 stars Resurrected from the bookshelf for the lads
I enjoyed this book immensely. The plot is great, although flawed on occasion. However it will keep you thinking well after the book. Read more
Published on 20 May 2004 by thekiwigirl

4.0 out of 5 stars Clever, very clever
'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... Read more

Published on 2 Mar 2004 by Richard Lloyd

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting premise, but sags a times
The central premise of the book, a re-writing of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 - "everybody remembers where they were the day President Kennedy tried to kill them" was enough... Read more
Published on 14 May 2003 by Tim Bowler

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitive alternate history novel - spoiled by its ending
I read this novel a couple of years ago and was gripped by it. It seemed utterly original and a great read, sadly spoiled by a weak and predictable ending. Read more
Published on 20 April 2003 by Justin Williams

3.0 out of 5 stars Barely met minimum expectations
If you're old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, then your attention may be captured by RESURRECTION DAY, an exercise in alternative history. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2002 by Joseph Haschka

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
..This is an excellent book. Original plot, gripping execution, and a nice ending.

Better than most thrillers out there. Read more

Published on 8 Mar 2002 by Emanon

3.0 out of 5 stars Patchy
Starts off well - its alternate history is very believable - but goes downhill when British characters are introduced. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars Close, but no cigar
OK, I thought the original idea was creative, and the perspective of the central character (Carl Landry) interesting. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2001 by J. C. Okonkwo

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