Night Fall | Nelson DeMille | Linda from Madison

Night Fall | Nelson DeMille | Very good but a strange, not shocking, ending

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Night Fall

	Night Fall Nelson DeMille, 2004 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 351 reviews view larger image
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Linda from Madison

This was my first read of Nelson Demille's and I have since gone to the book store to find all his books. I recomend Night Fall to everyone who enjoys a combination of humor and suspense. A touch of reality kept me rivited to my chair. I could not put it down.

Very good but a strange, not shocking, ending

Nelson DeMille's book 'Night Fall' is a very readable and interesting book. DeMille has taken a real life event (TWA flight 800 which crashed inexplicably over the ocean) and put in fictional characters to try and figure out if it was a grand conspiracy or if it was a simple malfunction within the plane.

That is what made this book very readable and disturbing was that the main event did happen and a lot of the backup stories and explanations were true (eyewitness accounts, a couple of hundred of them, differed greatly from the government explanation of what happened). The story follows DeMille's fictional character, John Corey, and his reluctant interest initially in the plane's demise to a strong follower of determining what happend and who may have been involved in the coverup.

DeMille goes in depth on following Corey. Page after page of repeated interviews could get tiring but you can see the big picture and begin to understand that these details are necessary and at the same time, interesting. Corey is a good character and a character that I liked a bit more than other DeMille stories. He is sarcastic as ever but you see a little bit more of what makes him tick.

The tension rises and I can honestly say that the final third of the book is difficult to put down because you sense the urgency and you can see that Corey is getting close to uncovering what happened.

The ending was, to put it mildy, disappointing. It is an intersting tie together, but left me empty. This was a 5-star book for me up to the final 25 pages...and then it dropped significantly in my eyes. I probably would have given it 3.5 stars if it was possible here. Still a good effort and I understand the difficult position DeMille was in trying to wrap up the book...but that doesn't mean I have to like his ending though.

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GREAT until the HORRIBLE ending

Others have stated this but what a shame that an incredible book like this had such a cop (as in apathetic) out ending. The tension builds and builds and you're ready for what's going to go down........and nothing does. You never find out the "truth." In an interview with the author on the audio CD, he said his 23yr old son picked out the ending for him. Bad mistake to listen to him. This was such a great book about 90% through with a very disappointing ending. What a letdown.

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