Night
Fall, by Nelson DeMille
and Scott Brick (Narrator)
On July 17, 1996, TWA Fight 800 left JFK Airport
on route to Paris. At approximately 8:30 pm, it exploded off
the coast of Long Island, sending all 230 passengers and crew
to their Atlantic Ocean graves. After investigation by the FBI,
CIA, and various police agencies, the tragedy was declared an
accident, but there were many cries of a cover-up and conspiracy.
While attending a fifth year memorial anniversary
of the event with his wife, Kate Mayfield, who was one of
the original FBI investigators, John Corey becomes interested
in the circumstances of the explosion. Although originally
a NYPD detective, John is now working as a contract agent
for the Anti-Terrorism Task Force with Kate. When they decide
to investigate the tragedy and begin to uncover disturbing
evidence, they are warned by the FBI and CIA to stop. Eyewitness
accounts of a missile striking the plane and the discovery
of information that was overlooked by the FBI and the CIA,
along with the unearthing of a missing videotape recorded
by a couple on the beach, convince them to continue their
dangerous pursuit of information. What the government has
called an accident caused by sparks igniting gas fumes seems
more and more like the cover-up of a terrorist act to John
and Kate in this shocking thriller.
When the TWA Flight 800 tragedy occurred, I was
caught up in the furor of the FBI's disregard of hundreds
of witnesses who claimed to have seen a rocket seconds before
the explosion. DeMille exposes many of the details that were
either unknown or ignored by news reporters in 1996. Nelson
DeMille is a first rate storyteller, and although this unabridged,
13-disk audio book takes 15 hours to hear, I didn't want it
to end. Narrator Scott Brick, using different voices for each
character, enables the listener to become an intimate part
of their world and their lives.
This fictionalized account of the actual tragedy
of TWA flight 800 is spellbinding from its opening pages to
its shocking conclusion. I highly recommend this breathtaking
thriller, which will leave you to decide. Accident? Or conspiracy
and cover-up?
John
Mormon
5/15/05
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