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Summary: A great read
Review: A great book for someone that is a Sheldon fan . However , more and more sci-fi books are common now days . This book is just one more to add to your wall . If readers want to read about true facts on UFO's etc , then read Alien Encounters by Chuck Missler . It is fun to read sci-fi but Alien Encounters will prove to be a all nighter . I am a big fan of Sheldon , although this book is very fun to read . Grab a blanket and cuddle up to the fire when reading the book . Sheldon should write more about fun things and not just women and money all the time .
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Summary: conspiracy what?
Review: Commander Robert Bellamy, crack Naval Intelligence agent, has been assigned the top secret job of locating ten people who witnessed the crash of a UFO in Switzerland. The job sends him to six countries, and, as soon as Robert and leaves them, each of the witnesses is violently murdered. He then realizes that several highly-placed representatives from around the world are behind the plot, and that his name has been added to the hit list.
This suspenseful page-turner kept me spellbound and I was unable to put it down. I felt like I was running with Robert as he used his skills and cunning to solve puzzle after puzzle, criss-crossing the globe in a frantic race against time. The exotic locations are described beautifully, and the large cast of characters is intriguing. The sci-fi parts are the weakest, and reflect the time in which the book was written, but the over-all reading experience was truly exciting, scary, and satisfying. I recommend The Doomsday Conspiracy to all fans of Sidney Sheldon's books; this one is different and one of his very best.
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Summary: Amazing!!
Review: Doomsday Conspiracy kept me on the edge of my seat. Believe it or not I finished reading the book overnight, I could NOT put it down!!
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Summary: Engrossing!
Review: Engrossing from the very start till just a bit before the end. The end was maybe just too fantastic to be credited, and this therefore spoilt just a wee bit the book. Other than that..*****!
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Summary: A little corny...but a fun read
Review: Fox Mulder would drop his UFO conspiracy theories about half-way through this incredibly inept stab at the genre. Commander Robert Bellamy is a former navy fighter pilot who lost the love of his life to some greasy tycoon (he’d been too busy fighting in aVietnam). Now in intelligence, working for his military mentor, Bellamy is tasked to track down witnesses who saw a UFO crash in Europe. Finding the UFO is really a weather balloon, Bellamy and a Russian assistant find members of a tour (from across the world) who saw the incident convinced it was the real thing. While the “weather balloon” story seems true, Bellamy never realizes that each of his witnesses is murdered shortly after he interviews them. The final segment of the book has Bellamy running for his own life – the last of the witnesses have been offed – across Europe. His hunter is the shadowy “Janus”. Meanwhile, a mysterious visitor who may know a thing or two herself about the incident, walks aimlessly across Europe. While this may be the stuff of a true cross-over hit, pedestrian prose, cardboard characters and a climax that looks like it was written up as an afterthought show that this book would be a miserable failure in any single genre, let alone several. Sheldon once claimed that he never wrote about a hotel he never slept in or a meal he didn’t eat – which is why his books sound more like travelogues than novels. His brief description of the history of “Top Gun” (Bellamy was a fighter pilot) is not only laughably off (Sheldon has Bellamy flying A-6 intruders which were NOT fighter planes) but seems to have no other purpose but to “show” that Sheldon knows a thing or two about techno-military details (whoops!!). Next is Bellamy himself – supposedly chosen for the mission because of his skills, even though he doesn’t begin to rely on them until he’s running for his life. Of course every UFO-conspiracy tale needs a conspiracy – normally a deftly executed one like that headed by the cigarette guy on the X-Files. This group is just power-hungry – there’s no real mystery to their intentions or why they fear the aliens. (For that matter, there’s little depth to the aliens’s benevolence.) Sheldon seems to think that nobody’s covered this ground before – let alone with better style and substance. If you need something along these lines, Payne Harrison’s “Forbidden Summit”, an imperfect book, is still better than this excuse of a novel, or just catch an episode of “The X-Files”. Just put this book down and forget you ever heard of it.
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Summary: Not even the Men In Black would bother with this
Review: Fox Mulder would drop his UFO conspiracy theories about half-way through this incredibly inept stab at the genre. Commander Robert Bellamy is a former navy fighter pilot who lost the love of his life to some greasy tycoon (he’d been too busy fighting in aVietnam). Now in intelligence, working for his military mentor, Bellamy is tasked to track down witnesses who saw a UFO crash in Europe. Finding the UFO is really a weather balloon, Bellamy and a Russian assistant find members of a tour (from across the world) who saw the incident convinced it was the real thing. While the “weather balloon” story seems true, Bellamy never realizes that each of his witnesses is murdered shortly after he interviews them. The final segment of the book has Bellamy running for his own life – the last of the witnesses have been offed – across Europe. His hunter is the shadowy “Janus”. Meanwhile, a mysterious visitor who may know a thing or two herself about the incident, walks aimlessly across Europe. While this may be the stuff of a true cross-over hit, pedestrian prose, cardboard characters and a climax that looks like it was written up as an afterthought show that this book would be a miserable failure in any single genre, let alone several. Sheldon once claimed that he never wrote about a hotel he never slept in or a meal he didn’t eat – which is why his books sound more like travelogues than novels. His brief description of the history of “Top Gun” (Bellamy was a fighter pilot) is not only laughably off (Sheldon has Bellamy flying A-6 intruders which were NOT fighter planes) but seems to have no other purpose but to “show” that Sheldon knows a thing or two about techno-military details (whoops!!). Next is Bellamy himself – supposedly chosen for the mission because of his skills, even though he doesn’t begin to rely on them until he’s running for his life. Of course every UFO-conspiracy tale needs a conspiracy – normally a deftly executed one like that headed by the cigarette guy on the X-Files. This group is just power-hungry – there’s no real mystery to their intentions or why they fear the aliens. (For that matter, there’s little depth to the aliens’s benevolence.) Sheldon seems to think that nobody’s covered this ground before – let alone with better style and substance. If you need something along these lines, Payne Harrison’s “Forbidden Summit”, an imperfect book, is still better than this excuse of a novel, or just catch an episode of “The X-Files”. Just put this book down and forget you ever heard of it.
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Summary: I want my money back
Review: Having read and enjoyed many of the author's previous novels, was surprised to find this deeply disappointing and predictable - strange that an armchair reader could forecast immediately what the experienced government agent could not! The few females appeared as one-dimensional characters, obviously only there to provide the compulsory sexual element. The national stereo-types were laughable (dodgy Cockney chap; cold, indifferent Chinese). The wet ending did provide one surprise, although if I had not been brain dead by this time, I probably could have worked this out too.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I am (or should I say "was"?)a huge fan of Sydney Sheldon, so I was maybe expecting too much. This book is nothing like other his books. From the beginning, you can tell what will happen next and it was almost a torture to finish reading it. (I made it since I was in the airplane and had nothing better to do.) Especially, if you're into X-file, you will laugh at this shallow, stereotyped, boring story.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I am a 14-year-old boy who read this book last year. I have never been so impressed with a book before. This was a book in which I stayed up 'till 3:00 a.m. one morning reading because it was so intriguing. I finished it in 3 days which says a lot....i recommend this book to everyone who enjoys a thriller and even history how he explains about the cities in which the book takes place. Excellent...my favorite.
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Summary: Cardboard cliches
Review: I cannot believe the cliches in this book. I actually laughed out loud during the short chapter where he introduces the members from different countries. First of all, he has each different person have exactly one line so he can mention them, and the descriptions he gives! The Frenchman was arrogant, the English snobby, the Japanese polite ... ! I will not be bothering with Sheldon again.
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