The Day After Tomorrow

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Summary: Other 100 pages would have brought men to extintion!
Review: How many murders! Further more murders and noone on the earth would have survived... The plot is unbelievable, the way of writing is elementar, there's no suspence. There are also many errors: Rhein river is confused with Rhone river during Von Holden's journey from Marseille to Paris, no man on the earth can swim butterfly for 6.2 km, an EuroCity (Paris-Meaux) is not a train for commuters, Federal Bundesbank is a redundant term, on the JungfrauJoch there's not a ski school, because there's not skiing there. Like many other readers I guessed 100 pages before the end that Adolf Hitler's head was in the box... The only thing I liked was that the book ended on the swiss alps, which i love.

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Summary: Move over Hemingway!!!
Review: No, this is not going to be recommended reading in college campuses across the nation, but if you have many hours to kill (it's over 600 pages), you want to briefly suspend yourself from reality and you want to reminesce about all the places in Europe you have traveled, it's a good read. In between all of the European landmarks mentioned there is an elaborate sci fi thriller evolving...I only wish it ended in Germany or England rather than Switzerland

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Summary: An edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller with a killer ending!
Review: This is without a doubt one of the best thrillers I have ever read. I was hooked from the beginnning, and it fully kept my interest throughout; timely, surprising twists, great character development, and a surprise ending. The characters are developed nicely and described in such a manner as to provoke compassion for even some of the "bad guys". I am anxiously awaiting the next novel by Mr. Folsom, or perhaps a sequel???

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Summary: 80% of perfection
Review: The story is breathless, the places are accurately descripted,but the end is predictable (I hoped through the last 100 pages it wasn't Hitler's head in the box !)

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Summary: Overly long, unbelievable and disappointing.
Review: This is a book I kept reading... and reading ... and reading, hoping for an ending clever enough to justify the effort I was making. Alas, the pay-off never came. Along the way, we meet the "hero" of the story, Paul Osborn, a Southern California physician adrift in Europe in search of his father's killers, who is so unsympathetic a character that I found myself wishing he would get knocked off by the bad guys just because he was such a total jerk. A more interesting character is the homicide detective, McVey, who switches from being Osborn's nemesis to ally over the course of the plot - a plot so totally implausible as to be almost a parody of this genre of thriller. The villain of the piece, a sinister, resurgent Nazi organization of true believers left over from the Third Reich, which hopes to surgically transplant Hitler's frozen head onto a new body, is so ridiculously omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient that the reader is left amazed at the ease of its anticlimactic collapse. I cannot recommend this book unless you're stuck on a long plane flight with nothing else to read but the emergency instruction card - as I was

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Summary: Interesting Storyline, lots of action, high body counts
Review: The book has an interesting storyline. It is quite unusual and original. The story moves along rather fast. There are lots of action with a high body counts. I enjoy the novel's discription of various European cities. I have been to many of them and it helped me enjoy the story more since I could picture myself being there. The only weak point about this book is the finale. It gives me a feeling of an anticlimax. I guess I wish the storyline could be developed a little further

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Summary: A gender-balanced international thriller!
Review: A kaleidoscope of history, science, futurism, espionage, love, sex, and intrigue weaved into an international thriller with strong characters. Plot is realistic and very possible. Most interesting and appealing are the intellectually and physically strong female characters. Read it Spring 1996 and have been searching bookstores and surfing www for Folsom's next novel -- When? When

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Summary: SINISTER SHOCKER WITH CLASSIC LAST LINE!
Review: THIS SINISTER THRILLER IS ABOUT TO MEN WHO MUST DEFEAT AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY THAT SPANS DECADES AND CONTINENTS.

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Summary: The Best International Thriller I've Ever Read!
Review: After nearly a decade of avoiding fiction, I found myself immersed in this book while standing in a bookstore. I literally could not put it down! From page one, Mr. Folsom began an exhilarating story that plunges you into a world of international intrigue and suspense. Two essential and effective attributes of this novel are the vivid description and intense narration. The author paints incredible images in the reader's mind's eye, making him feel as if he is amongst the action, and increasing his appetite for the next page. Considering Mr. Folsom is a screenwriter, I am anxiously awaiting the big screen version! Since reading this book, I have delved into the pages of other novels in its genre, only to be disappointed in their inability to exceed my expectations. The Day After Tomorrow is a novel I highly recommend to all of my friends, and to all of you as well

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Summary: A rip-roaring page-turner!
Review: My brother recommended that I read this book. Well I finally did after I prized it away from my wife who read it in just two days claiming it was 'one of the best novels I've ever read'. From the moment I picked this book up I was on the edge of my seat. There is enough plots and sub-plots in this book that you can never assume any character is who they claim to be. To think that this is Allan Folsom's first novel is incredible, he writes like a pro. This book is a must for anyone who enjoys losing themselves between the pages of a book