Oh my god. No amount of planning could prepare me to pen a deserving review for Night Fall. I will never ever read such a large book in so short a time. It was unbelievable. This is why I read books. After this, if I have to ditch 10 books in a row, it will be worth it. When I was reading Night Fall, I thought no way does this book get 4/5 stars. But it occurred that all events converged on the remaining chapters. That is the only way an okay setup book jumps from okay to amazing. The most recen...

SOME QUESTIONS WILL REMAIN UNANSWERED AND SOME INCIDENTS WILL REMAIN UNSOLVED ..I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK .IT'S TOTALLY A PAGE TURNER,I WAS SO ENGROSSED,SHOCKED AS I CAME TO THE END .DIDN'T REALLY THINK THE END WOULD BE LIKE THIS . IT WAS MY FIRST OF NELSON DEMILLE'S BOOK AND DEFINITELY NOT THE LAST .

Generally, I’m not a fan of political thrillers. You say to me, “Carol, here’s a political thriller I just know you will love…” and I will not be rushing to the library or my favorite dealer to get a copy. Frankly, I find most of them silly and poorly written. Government conspiracies? Puh-leaze.Not so believable.At any rate, this one popped up in discussion and due to enthusiasm from Sharon and recommendations from Alfred (and others, I think–I lost the thread), Sharon and I decided to give it t...

Wow. I'm shattered, shocked and awed by this novel. Pay special close attention to the time frame in the book. TWA Flight 800 tragedy 1996, the 5 year anniversary 2001. I was so engrossed in this fast paced, action packed, novel that I absolutely did not see the end coming. “Holy Shit” I said to myself and “No Way”. I had to go back and look. When you read this you'll be in for the ride of your life and the tension will grow and grow, and you will become shattered at the end. I hate cliffhangers...

The best way I can describe this book is that it seems like DeMille needed a transitional book for his character John Corey and his pre vs post 9/11 world. Since the type of adventures/mysteries Corey gets involved in usually deal with terrorism, it was probably a challenge to figure out how to go from one to the other. It could not just be as simple as releasing a book after the fact and suddenly everything is different. I applaud DeMille for thinking this through and putting it all into a full...

While I respect DeMille's writing, have thought several of his novels are brilliant at every level, 'Night Fall' is an absolute cheat. DeMille is fascinated with the crash of TWA flight 800 in July, 1996. The crash was caused by an electrical-fault explosion in the central fuel tank. But what if it was really an act of terrorism?This non-novel is 500 pages of John and Kate, DeMille's most vivid and entertaining characters, reinvestigating the crash at the five-year anniversary. Hundreds of peopl...

Tied with Plum Island as my favorite book of all time

Book 3 in the John Corey series Published 2004A thought provoking 4 star read.This is a retelling of what was at the time the worst aviation disaster in American history, the mid-air explosion of flight TWA 800 in 1996 with a loss of 230 passengers and crew members.The official explanation was a fault with an electrical short circuit caused fuel vapors to ignite leading to an explosion.At the time there was a lot of alternative reasons for the explosion and it’s this avenue that the author explo...

Wow. Oh DeMille, you sly SOB... Here we are at Book 3 of the wonderful John Corey series, by an author who wasn’t even on my radar up until about a year ago. Arguably the best book in the series so far, this one has Corey, who works essentially in Homeland Security, looking into the closed case of TWA Flight 800. This was a real world event, so I was wondering exactly how DeMille was going to handle it. I was not disappointed. TWA Flight 800 went down just off Long Island New York in 1996. The o...

I liked this book much more than The Lion's Game. I suspect it has a lot to do with the fact that this story had more of the hands-on approach than the rest. Whereas the 'mystery' in the previous Corey book was solved in the last pages of the book, "Night Fall" was shrouded in mystery to the end and only slowly revealed its secrets.John Corey seemed to be more in his element in this book. Or perhaps, all that chasing around masked some of the cynicism and bravado. Don't get me wrong, I like his

This book was 692 pages. For 690 pages it was one of the best books I've ever read and then DeMille completely ruined it with one of the most piece-of-crap, cop-out endings I've ever seen coming a mile away. He even admits that he had no idea how to finish this book and his son came up with the idea for the ending. I guess that's the problem with writing a story based on a real-life event. You can't really change history or present "facts" that didn't actually happen, so he completely wrote hims...

This book and I may have gotten off on the wrong foot. I wanted to revisit Nelson DeMille--I read Plum Island years ago and remembered really enjoying it, especially protagonist John Corey's smartass sense of humor. I recall very little about the book, other than a row between Corey and a villain which ends up with Corey disemboweling him, and proceeding to lay the contents on his open stomach with a flourish ("'Your guts,' I declared."). That's a line that stays with you when you're young.Upon

Provocative, frightening, and based on True Events. It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married - but not to each other - make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasures...and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 victims on board, the terrible blast illuminating the sky. The government's verdict is mechanical failure. But the videotape may tell another story - if it can be found. Now, on the 5th anniversary of...

I don't know what to say about Night Fall, the premise is very different than the first two books in the series. It's about the attack on Flight 800, which I didn't know much about until reading this book, a few nights ago I did some research on the real thing, and I learned more about it. This book also seemed to have a more serious tone to it than the first two.The ending really shocked me, I never saw it coming. I don't want to spoil it for anyone so I won't give anything away. However it was...

Once again Mark Twain’s formula for an American crime writer of killing everybody off at the end is followed. This time September 11th does it, wiping out witnesses and conspirators alike. Too bad!! For almost 500 pages we surely want to know who targeted this flight and why was there a cover-up? There is much humour and suspense through-out but the essentials are unanswered.

This was one of those novels that the pre-release hype was so great that as a reader, I was not sure what to expect but Night Fall with a few small exceptions lived up to the media hubbub. The novel starts with a flashback scene that takes us to the Atlantic coast on the fateful night of the TWA flight 800 crash. On the beach, two "consenting adults" are enjoying their night out and for posterity sake filmed the evening. On this tape, the "accident" and a strange shooting light is trapped on cel...

DeMille's wit is in full effect in the suspenseful thriller! Made me laugh over and over and over again. The characters are likeable and believable, the story has the right level of sophistication and many of the theories in the book are based on verifiable facts and eyewitness statements regarding TWA Flight 800. Some readers have been and will continue to be displeased by the last couple pages. I, on the other hand, felt it was a perfect conclusion to a fastastic and wildly entertaining story....

Suspenseful tale built on TWA-800 crash - but sloppy ending!We are loyal followers of DeMille's entire bibliography, so looked forward to "Night Fall", especially once we got the drift it was based on fact and embellished with fiction (ala the Da Vinci Code). The author concocts two eyewitnesses to the crash of TWA flight 800 in 1996, who not only claimed to have seen a "missile" streak skyward toward the plane, but may have videotaped it as well, as part of a secret, sex-filled beachside rendez...

Demille's books seem to be reliably good (at least this series has been so far). I'm getting these from the public library (hey, I'm already looking at having to reduce the size of my own library...a lot. i can't buy every book I read). That means i usually have to put these on hold and wait to get them.As I did this one.This volume of the lives of our heros begins a little more slowly or maybe I should use the word "obliquely" than the first two. Hang in there it will grab you.Kate (Mayfield) h...

****Spoiler****I love Nelson Demille books. I love conspiracy theories. I absolutely can not stand it when there isn't an ending and nothing gets solved.I rated this a 3 because it was highly entertaining. But as I was nearing the end I thought that there was a good chance we wouldn't get any answers...and we didn't. Though it isn't like this book is a history book that has all the details. I know it's a piece of fiction but, come on, finish the da*n story. I"m frustrated, but I literally just f...