Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Night Fall |
| author | Nelson DeMille |
| ISBN-10 | 0-316-85849-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-316-85849-6 |
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| date | 2011-Jan-19 |
At the five year memorial service for the victims of the TWA Flight 800 crash, Kate Mayfield talks about the investigation of the crash to John Corey, a former NYPD homicide detective now working for the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force. It is the first time Kate talks about it. She was working on this case five years ago, but she is not at all happy with the official statement about the cause of the crash. Of course, to give John some inside information and point out some irregularities is like teasing a hungry dog with a steak. He goes for the bait and starts digging around this old case on his own time and against explicit orders from his superiors. The warnings form the higher ranks only make him more suspicious.
While the story is laid out fine and interesting enough, the style this book is written in needs some getting used to. Not only is it all told from a first person perspective, but also very conversational. In numerous places John tells the reader something just to follow it with "Just kidding." This book by Nelson DeMille is ok, but he has written better ones.
