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Hello Paperspine fans,

It’s been a while since I blogged, I admit but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading. In fact I’ve read several books since my last blog and the one I’ve decided to review today is called Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille. This has been a popular book with our subscribers so I thought I’d give it a shot. DeMille is probably best known for authoring The General’s Daughter which was later turned into a movie starring John Travolta.

Anyway, back to Wild Fire. The basic premise of the book is that Wild Fire is the government code name for an all out nuclear attack on Muslim extremist nations. It basically states that if any nuclear device is detonated against a US city the US will retaliate with total obliteration of most of the Middle East. I’m assuming this is all fiction, but who knows what actually goes on at the National Security level.

The book centers around John Corey, a retired NYPD detective who now works for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force (ATTF) and his wife who is an FBI Agent. One of their colleagues goes out on a surveillance assignment of a high-profile, secret club and never returns. They go out to investigate and find a lot more than they bargained for and that the missing ATTF agent is only the tip of the iceberg on what is coming.

Wild Fire is a pretty long read at just over 700 pages. About 250 pages into it, I started thinking to myself when is this going to get more intense? DeMille’s writing style is very dialog based (which I like) but the book was lacking the descriptiveness I’ve come to enjoy with other authors. I love books that get me hooked and that I really can’t put down because I’m so enthralled with what is coming on the subsequent pages, but Wild Fire was often anti-climatic and often times predictable. I’m sure DeMille is a talented writer with all his #1 New York Times Bestsellers, but I would be surprised if this was one of his best works.

If you’ve read Wild Fire or other DeMille books, post a comment on the blog and let me know. I’d be interested to hear what others have thought about this book and his other writings.

Keep on reading!

Dustin