Night Fall
by Nelson DeMille
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Author: Nelson DeMilleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-06
ISBN: 044617792X
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: "I've never, in all my years of law enforcement, seen so many credible witnesses given so little credence."
Summary: 4 Stars
(3.5 stars) Imagining an alternative scenario to the one which the government formulated to explain the crash of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, shortly after it left JFK Airport, Nelson Demille imagines and explores a different explanation. Of the more than seven hundred eye witnesses to the explosion, over two hundred swore they saw a missile fire and then hit the aircraft, and Demille explores this possibility in detail. In the process he examines the data available on the crash, the methods used by the FBI to investigate (before they turned the final investigation over to the NTSB), the reconstruction of the wreckage, and information which the CIA may have had about incipient terrorist activity in the US in the five years before 9/11.
Kate Mayfield, a young FBI agent married to former NYPD investigator John Corey, was involved in the crash investigation, and after attending a memorial service for the victims, she interests her husband in the case. Forbidden to investigate further because the FBI has closed the case, Kate has never been able to reconcile the final explanations of the crash with information she uncovered through conversations with eyewitnesses, and Corey is soon "hooked" on the case. Demille minces no words in describing the internecine squabbles over power among the various investigative agencies from NYPD to the FBI and CIA. Various investigators hide suspicious information, suggesting a widespread coverup, and as Corey and Mayfield become the "heroes" of this novel, they do so at their own peril by refusing to believe in the honesty of their peers.
The key to the case here is a sex tape being made on the beach, just as the plane explodes. The couple involved, not married to each other, quickly leaves the beach, not wanting to be discovered as witnesses. They take the tape with them, a recording that shows an apparent missile striking the plane. As Corey investigates, trying to find out who they are and what might have happened to the tape, his own life and career, and that of his wife, are endangered, not by terrorists but by agencies of their own government.
Demille succeeds in creating an exciting novel which explores an alternative explanation for the crash. John Corey is well drawn--an iconoclast who is compelled to challenge the status quo--but except for a friend and his own wife, both of whom help him, the other characters, representing government agencies, are self-serving, if not downright hostile, secretive, and dishonest. The depiction of the investigation takes on cynical tones, not improved by the gratuitous, expedient ending. Interesting to read, if one can get past the idea that only Corey cares about what really happened, but disappointing in its one-sided view of the investigation. n Mary Whipple
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Summary of Night Fall
Now in trade paperback for the first time, bestselling author Nelson DeMille brings you the triumphant return of Detective John Corey, in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that investigates what really happened to TWA Flight 800.John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective, assigned to the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the pre-millennium 90's, makes a return appearance in a thoughtful novel offering an alternative to the government's "official" position on what really happened to TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the Long Island coast in the summer of 1996. Accompanying his wife Kate to a memorial marking the five-year anniversary of the crash, Corey's curiosity is aroused by what appears to be a concerted effort by Kate's fellow federal agents to keep him--and her--from investigating a case that appears to be closed. Corey's detecting skills lead him to two witnesses to the crash, who were enjoying an adulterous interlude on the beach at the time the plane went down--and videotaping their sexual escapades while what appears to be a terrorist missile attack takes place in the background. What ratchets up the tension in this capably written thriller is what the reader knows but Corey doesn't as he heads for a showdown with those responsible for the official cover-up as the clock ticks down to the morning of September 11, 2001. DeMille's deft touch with a riddle wrapped in an enigma--what really happened to Flight 800--makes his "what if" scenario a more than plausible theory; you don't have to believe in conspiracies or government cover-ups to find his latest engrossing, entertaining, and enlightening. --Jane Adams
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Nelson DeMille on Night Fall: An Exclusive Essay
It was a true story, the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island in 1996, that inspired Nelson DeMille to write the fictional Night Fall. Read this Amazon.com exclusive essay for insight into the coincidences that made this tragedy a subject DeMille couldn't ignore.
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