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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
Better than Plum Island
Much better book than Plum Island. A lot more action and not so many dumb jokes by Corey. No need to read OK to enjoy this one. Spell check changed PL to Ok above.
Much better book than Plum Island. A lot more action and not so many dumb jokes by Corey. No need to read OK to enjoy this one. Spell check changed PL to Ok above.
I like DeMille, but this one seemed long and far too detailed. I was tired of the story before I finished. Is that bad?
I really enjoyed this book. It was full of intrigue as well as humor. He is a very entertaining author.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Riviting! Thoroughly enjoy the sarcastic protagonist. The antagonist is pure evil. DeMille is a master of fast moving action. This reads much faster than its 700 pages.
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Old, sexist, racist, jaded white cop hunts terrorists. Bad jokes ensue.
I read Plum Island and really liked it, so I bought this one because it's the next in the John Corey series. However, I didn't like this as much. I still like the the John Corey character. And the beginning, with the flight landing at JFK was great. However, the story dragged on too much, with way too much flying. Also, the ending was a bit of a let-down.
Like the John Corey character but this was painfully slow and long. No idea why he wrote this so detailed and drawn out. There should have been some major editing to make it to a much shorter version.
I had never read a Nelson DeMille book before this one. Someone recommended it to me, at a point in time when I wasn't reading much. I flew through all 900 pages in this book in a week. I couldn't put it down (I know, sounds like a cheesy newspaper review). I had to go back and read all of the John Corey books I could find.
I gave this a 3 but it’s really more like 2 1/2. I liked it but boy was it long. Typically I can read these cop/FBI murder investigation type books fairly quickly, but not this one. It’s my first book by Nelson DeMille so I can’t say if this is typical of his writing style or just this particular book. I did not read book one in the John Corey series but I don’t think it mattered. Anything that I needed to know about the past was thoroughly retold in this book.
The book was split up into sections. First section was told purely from Corey’s point of view. The middle section went back and forth between Corey and Asad Khalil, The Lion, the terrorist Corey is hunting down. The end was again back to just Corey. I liked the beginning and ending much more than the middle even though the middle is the majority of the book. I liked hearing Asad’s story from the air raid in Libya in 1986 but after that the current day stuff where he was traveling around the US killing all the people associated with that air raid it became monotonous. It was just the same thing over and over, just waiting for Corey and the anti-terrorism task force to figure out what was going on.
All that said, I like Corey’s character and his partner and now wife, Kate enough that I’d read another book in the series sometime down the road.
The book was split up into sections. First section was told purely from Corey’s point of view. The middle section went back and forth between Corey and Asad Khalil, The Lion, the terrorist Corey is hunting down. The end was again back to just Corey. I liked the beginning and ending much more than the middle even though the middle is the majority of the book. I liked hearing Asad’s story from the air raid in Libya in 1986 but after that the current day stuff where he was traveling around the US killing all the people associated with that air raid it became monotonous. It was just the same thing over and over, just waiting for Corey and the anti-terrorism task force to figure out what was going on.
All that said, I like Corey’s character and his partner and now wife, Kate enough that I’d read another book in the series sometime down the road.