Wild Fire

Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille

Fiction/Mystery-Thriller/Adult/516 Pages

A federal agent is sent to the Custer Hill Club on a surveillance mission and ends up dead.

Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, set out to investigate. Before long, they start to unravel a plot which has been hatched to set off a nuclear chain reaction that willl lead to global chaos.

Review

This is a scary book. Scary because it could happen. Wild Fire is a rumour that has been on the Web for years. DeMille has written this book based on that rumour.

I've been a fan of Nelson DeMille for years. There's an exhilarating style to his writing; it always stirs the imagination. This is reflected on the pages by a voice that reads like an animated child telling a grand tale. It's obvious the author is as excited by the subject matter as he wants the reader to be. And, if I could hazard a guess, Detective John Corey, is the character DeMille relates most to. This of course is supposition based on the fact that this is the fourth book in which Corey has made an appearance.

I like Corey; he has an irreverent sense of humour, which I suspect matches that of DeMille. In Wild Fire, he is at his wise-ass best, blatantly disregarding rules and regulations on his path to solving the mystery. True to form, Demille delivers a cracking good read.

But ...

At the beginning of the story, the federal agent is captured by the bad guys, who then proceed to reveal their plans for world domination. To me, this felt cliched (almost al la James Bond) and somewhat contrived. I reckon it would have been better for the reader to discover the evil plot the same time John Corey and Kate do. You know, build the suspense more. But that's just a personal view.

This is a good book. You can't go wrong spending a few hours with John Corey. Especially when he learns an important lesson; never to call his wife a bitch when they're having an argument.

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