Product Description

Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic. This is the worst vacation ever.
Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens. Survival may be the least of their concerns.
Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-09
• Released on: 2008-06-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

About the Author
James Patterson's most recent bestseller is Double Cross. He is one of the best known and best selling authors of all time. He lives in Florida.

Customer Reviews

just "okay"
Patterson's latest effort makes for a just "ok" read.......characters seem too shallow; storyline is too unbelievable. Patterson should stick with "Alex Cross".

Too unbelievable
I wanted to like this book and was looking forward to reading it. However almost everything in it that happened was so unbelievable I thought that I was reading a comedy. From New England to the Bahamas in a sailboat in a day...really? A giant snake....really. A kind of fun read but I couldn't make myself believe it was a serious James Patterson book.

Audio version not a great listen
Sail is a good book for light reading. A small insignificant twist at the end. The who-done-it is told in the beginning.

The audio read is strange. There are two readers, a man and a woman. Perfect!!! right? Not exactly. Who is reading the book depends on what character is recounting the story. If a man is recounting his perspective of the trial, then the burly old defense lawyer has a deep raspy voice; but if a woman is recounting her perspective of the trial, then the same old lawyer has a deepened female voice.......like a soprano trying to talk at a lower octave. This switch in the lawyers voice from deep and raspy to deepened female happens minutes apart. (this being one character example as there are others that are male characters whose dialogue is read by the woman) This type of read is strange to me and somewhat distracting and doesn't really allow you to get into the characters........other than those who are recounting the story because their readers remain gender specific.

Otherwise the book was a fun listen with a light sinister plot.