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It's been a year since the horror of 9/11 and the United States and its people are still trying to process what happened. Retired NYPD cop and now Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield, work together in the government sector. When their friend and co-worker Harry Muller is killed on a surveillance job at millionaire Bain Maddox’s Custer Hill Club estate in the Adirondacks, they see that his death was needless. They investigate to try to understand why he was given such a strange assignment and to uncover what is really going on. Very soon it becomes apparent that Bain Maddox’s club has a membership of the richest and most powerful men in America. It is also evident that they are as right wing as is possible, thinking that a nuclear incident would bring America to the absolute leadership of world power. Detective John Corey is a man used to bending the rules, but his wife is more of a straight arrow and sometimes manages to keep him from going off on his own to find the truth. But as the tension rises and they suspect that there is a deadly conspiracy in the works, both begin to cut corners, something they both say is a natural outcome to September 11. WILD FIRE is very well written. Author Nelson DeMille knows how to create interesting, larger-than-life characters and can supply them with fast and snappy dialogue. The book is well-paced and entertaining, but unfortunately, by making the oncoming trouble created by the conspiracy a world-wide catastrophe and by placing it years ago, the readers start the book by knowing that Corey and friends manage to thwart the bad guys, since nothing like that has ever happened. Thus it pretty much cuts all the tension from the book. The whole climatic ending, with its chase and gunplay and a nuclear countdown doesn't raise the pulse, since the ending is already known. DeMille is a good writer; his books are always a great read and well worth buying. This story just didn't work for me.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, September 2006
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