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| View Larger Image | Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
| | List Price: | $9.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 9415 | | Studio: | Vision | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 720 | | Publication Date: | November 01, 2007 | | Publisher: | Vision |
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Product Description
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--an informal men's club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion.
That same weekend, a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force is reported missing. His body is soon discovered in the woods near the Custer Hill Club's game reserve. The death appears to be a hunting accident, and that's how the local police first report it, but Detective John Corey has his doubts. As he digs deeper, he begins to unravel a plot involving the Custer Hill Club, a top-secret plan known only by its code name: Wild Fire. Racing against the clock, Detective Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, find they are the only people in a position to stop the button from being pushed and chaos from being unleashed.
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 293 reviews)
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Just Plain Awful 
This is the third Corey book I have read, and they seem to be going downhill fast. Why, like a James Bond movie, do the bad guys never just kill Corey when they have the chance. The conclusion was so predictably unbelievable with the "race against the clock" ending. However, the worst part of the book is Kate, Corey's wife. These two could never exist together, and her character seems to change back and forth from weak to strong character. Take a pass on this one.
August 27, 2008 | |
My first DeMille and probably my last 
I was very excited when this book was offered as a prize in my library's summer reading program. I had often seen this author in the bookstores and had never read him, so I thought it was a great opportunity. I selected this book and eagerly began reading.
After finishing this book, my primary reaction is that I will never read another. The only thing that saved this from receiving a one star rating was the premise. The general story was great and I thought I was in for a wonderful read, only to be greatly disappointed. The writing is very, very bad. The dialogue is stilted and the main characters "solve" the problem in a way that has no plausabiliy.
I was a bit concerned close to the beginning where a federal agent has been caught trespassing and is brought into a meeting of the "bad guys" where the entire plot is explained to him. This is supposed to be a meeting of the major players who have been involved since the beginning, but the leader of the ring explains things like one would do a group of elementary school children. They also immediately begin feeling uncomfortable about what they are going to do even though this has been in the works for years. What a contrived situation.
The hero of the book (John Corey) also is totally unrealistic and very irritating the farther along you read in the book. While some wisecracks make sense and help develop his character, there is NOTHING said in the dialogue that doesn't result in a wisercack. At some point, facing proabable death (and the death of his wife), I think he would have SOME serious thoughts or ideas. It just doesn't ring true. He also manages to "solve" the mystery/problem without much data and magically figures the whole thing out.
If this is representative of his work, I'll not be reading another. There are too many good books in the world to waste time on this !
August 20, 2008 | |
An All Around Bad Read
Traditionally, DeMille has written excellent thrillers with unexpected plot twists & generally witty dialogue between Corey and the antagonists. This book has absolutely none of those characteristics.
Plot:
Fiction writers are generally afforded a lenient artistic license allowing them to stitch otherwise ludicrous plots together. This book takes those liberties and abuses them to the fullest. Under no circumstances is the plot of this novel made believable to the reader. Proper writing along with effective plot development can make nearly any scenario appear realistic, DeMille fails miserably at this task.
Characters:
Corey is not up to his usual self in the book. The other characters offer no intrigue. Unlike the villains in his other books, Bain offers us no insight as to why he is such a lunatic. His cache of supporters are all merely "present", there is no effort on DeMille's part to explain to the readers why they have all gone mad.
Dialogue:
This is the worst part of the book. I will not elaborate, however it should be obvious to most readers that this book was rushed into publication. The dialogue is awful. In fact, nothing significant happens between the 1st two chapters and the last 2 chapters. Everything in-between is filler material (consisting primarily of weak dialogue).
August 14, 2008 | |
Wild Fire 
A very good and timely tale. Lots of twists and turns. DeMille is one of my favorites.
August 13, 2008 | |
Good, but the light bulb goes on a little too easily 
I liked this book, and I usually chuckled at most of John Corey's wisecracks, though I can see how their frequency can annoy some readers. (As far as that goes, you're either endeared to the Corey character or you're not. My advice is to just roll your eyes, like Kate, and get on with the rest of the book!) Anyway, my only criticism of the book is that I felt the lightbulb over John's head went on a little to easily and a little too suddenly. The story seemed to go from John and Kate not getting it to suddenly figuring out the general idea (though not all its specifics) of the dastardly scheme, almost out of nowhere. I would have liked a little more development on that score. Otherwise, on balance, I enjoyed the book.
August 02, 2008 | |
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