Night Fall

Wow! What an excellent book! Night Fall, by Nelson DeMille is a page turner from start to finish. It grabs you right in and doesn't let go...even after you read the last page and close the book. Props to my BFF for turning me on to this one!!

The premise of the novel Night Fall is an actual event, the crash of TWA flight 800. The facts about the crash that are in the book are real, just the characters and some of the situations are fictional. A former NYPD cop, now turned FBI contract agent working for the Anti Terrorism Task Force, gets some information about the TWA crash five years after the incident. The information makes him wonder if the crash was really an accident, and he goes on a hunt for more information, against the wishes of his superiors.

The following adventure is one that keeps the reader guessing until the last pages of the book, and beyond. It is a quick paced journey full of suspense, mystery and heart pounding potential peril. At the same time, DeMille makes the reader laugh with one liners and quips of dry humor that are perfectly timed. Those laughs lightened the heavy subject matter and help the reader cope because the other events that take place during this thrill ride, and the timing of the entire novel, are relevant to every American. And no one will who reads it will be able to do so without emotion, or will forget it once they are finished.

I absolutely loved this book and could not put it down. I highly recommend it and will be researching other Nelson DeMille novels, especially ones that have this detective, John Corey, in them. I want to read the next John Corey novel and see where he goes from here. Many thanks to my girlfriend who recommended this one!

Happy Reading!