DeMille's can't-put-it-down fourth thriller to feature ex-NYPD detective John Corey (after 2004's Night Fall) involves an American right-wing plot to suitcase-nuke two U.S. cities

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Product Description

Welcome to the Custer Hill Club - a men's club set in an 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 relax with old friends. But one fall weekend, the club's Executive Board gathers to talk about 9/11 - and finalize a retaliation plan, known only by its code name: WILD FIRE. That same weekend, a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force is found dead. Soon it's up to Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield, to unravel a plot that starts with the Custer Hill Club and ends with American cities locked in the crosshairs of a nuclear device. Only Corey and Mayfield can stop the button from being pushed, and global chaos from being unleashed... More chilling than yesterday's headlines and as prophetic as tomorrow's, Wild Fire will challenge you to question everything you thought you knew about your leaders and your country while thrilling you with suspense that builds with every page.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23715 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 528 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Set in October 2002, bestseller DeMille's can't-put-it-down fourth thriller to feature ex-NYPD detective John Corey (after 2004's Night Fall) involves an American right-wing plot to suitcase-nuke two U.S. cities. The idea is to provoke an existing government plan called Wild Fire that automatically responds to nuclear terrorism in the homeland with a nuclear attack that will wipe out most of the Middle East. That such a plan probably exists, according to an opening author's note, heightens the tension. Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, set off to find antiterrorist agent Harry Muller, who has disappeared after being assigned surveillance duties at the Custer Hill Club, a rich man's hunting lodge in upstate New York. John and Kate are a wisecracking, affectionate, deadly duo, with a new resolve born in the tragedy of the World Trade Center bombing. This tour de force of relentless narrative power neither stops nor slows for twists or turns, but charges straight ahead in the face of danger. (Nov.)
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From AudioFile
In their fourth outing together, the husband-and-wife antiterrorism team of John Corey and Kate Mayfield must foil a plot to provoke our government into launching a massive nuclear attack on the Muslim world. Golden Voice Scott Brick proves himself a superb match for bestselling suspense writer Nelson DeMille. With his trademark tones of irony, sarcasm, and self-confidence, Brick brings to life the wisecracking and independent Corey in ways that will make the listener laugh even as the tension builds. Brick's quiet and level tones for the more even-tempered Mayfield make it seem as though there are two narrators at work. The fact that DeMille has chosen the first person to tell the story is another reason this makes a fine production. S.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Booklist
John Corey, the ex-NYPD detective who now works on a government anti-terrorism task force, returns in this exciting and uncomfortably realistic thriller. Bain Madox, a brilliant and probably insane villain, has hatched a fiendishly clever plot to force the U.S. to launch an all-out nuclear attack against the entire Islamic world. It's up to Corey, with the help of his FBI agent wife, to stop Madox before he can detonate nuclear weapons on American soil. Set in 2002, barely a year after 9/11, the novel presents a what-if scenario that's so plausible we have to remind ourselves that DeMille is making the whole thing up. Or is he? As usual, DeMille appears to have done a ton of research; what sets his thrillers apart from those of some of his competitors is the way he seamlessly incorporates real technology and real government organizations into his stories. It really is tough to tell what parts of his novels are real and what are the products of his imagination. And although Operation Wild Fire, the American nuclear retaliatory strategy that Madox hopes to jump-start, is fictional, DeMille makes us believe that something very like it could and possibly does exist. David Pitt
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Customer Reviews

Wild Fire
Great book by a great author. My wife says it's the best one he's
written & we loved the Charm School.

AWESOME! Exciting and in parts made me laugh out loud.
I loved this book! The plot and characters were so interesting. I loved the witty banter between the main character, John Corey and his wife Kate. It's one of the few books that had me laughing out loud! The book on CD was read by Scott Brick did an AWESOME job as the voice of John Corey and the other characters. It was also kinda scary because it makes you wonder if Wildfire could actually happen someday.

Not One of DeMille's Best
Reading this right after DeMille's "Night Fall" was a bit disappointing. The novel gets somewhat long in the tooth. The basic premise for the story is different & very good. Unfortunately we find what the evil goings on are to be by sitting through a long meeting toward the beginning. The rest of the story just plays out afterward. DeMille writes with a very good tongue in cheek humor. It goes overboard in this one. The hero, John Corey, is a bit too acidic in his humor & sarcasm. If he were real, someone would have cleaned his clock long ago; including his wife. The plot is very evil & the fact that John & his wife take down all the bad guys by themselves before outside help arrives is just over the top & just would not happen. The bad guys who survive & are high ranking government officials just fade away, their deeds glossed over by the government which is so predictable. It's readable, but by no means one of the author's best works. Oh, one more thing. Mr. DeMille, please put Ted Nash somewhere so he need not surface yet again. He's gotten tiring, having more lives than a cat.