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Summary: One of the best books I've read!
Review: This book has everything a book should have.. action, suspense, and horror. I read this book from beginning to end, only stopping once. This a must read!
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Summary: A Great Book to read...safely on the ground
Review: This was the first book I read by Demille. It is great! The story is so captivating. Demille has written a great book. I am in the 8th grade, I read it in the 6th grade I never found a book about air disasters as good. No matter the price it is worth the money. But read it on the safety of the ground.
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Summary: Great for the gym
Review: Got so absorbed in this book I could easily spend 45 minutes on the treadmill without even being aware that I was tired. An exciting and frightening book with an interesting insight into what may or may not be standard practice in the insurance industry and the military. Demille is good. This is one of his best.
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Summary: Great book but not a pleasant read on a long plane flight
Review: Well I read this book on a trip to Soeul,Korea a very long plane ride at 36,000 feet. The book has some very interesting points about insurance, Military as well as the human will to survive.
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Summary: ONE OF MY ALTIME FAVORITES
Review: This book held my attention like only two other books that I have read, Grisham's "The Partner" and Baldacci's "The Winner". I began this book on a flight from Memphis to Puerto Rico. I was on the edge of my seat for the entire flight, although I was tempted to move to the lavatory to read this book.
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Summary: Another great story by Nelson Demille!!
Review: It is amazing how Demille makes a winner out of any topic he chooses. This one will keep you on the edge of your seat....
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Summary: Taut, tense and terrific.
Review: I was coerced into buying this book because of an interest in flying and action/adventure novels. But once I started reading it I didn't remember why I needed coersion. It simply a terrific read from begginning to end. I thought that it would be similar to books like Arthur Hailey's 'Airport' which I had read years ago and quite enjoyed but I wondered how DeMille was going to do anything new with the genre. Although a big fan of the 'X-Files' and the like I was just about "conspiracied" out. But DeMille makes the missile tragedy and cover-up very believable. The attention to detail (as he acknowledged, Thomas Block's aeronautical knowledge was vital)is excellent but he never lets the technicalities (either the problems experienced at the altitude or the militaria) bog the story down. You find yourself in the cockpit right next to John Berry with your heart pounding. Interestingly the romantic sub plot was barely touched on and was refreshing in this age of sex/sexual tension influencing everything. Rightly, the protaganists put this to one side to concentrate on the more important issues at hand. This leads to the sexual tension being there, just in the periphery. 'Mayday' is brilliantly written and while originally published in the late 1970s, the version that I bought was updated for the 1990s (in much the same way the Stephen King updated 'The Stand') and I can honestly say it's an excellent book. I bought 'Mayday' about 3 months ago and quickly got my hands on and read 'Spencerville' and 'The General's Daughter' by DeMille (both of which are excellent) and we also now have 'Gold Coast', 'Plum Island' 'Word of Honour', 'The Talbot Odyssey' and 'By the Rivers of Babylon' in our bookcase. For fans of the action side of the story, I can also recommend Clive Cussler, whose earlier books resemble 'Mayday', including coincidentally one called 'Mayday', although I think its American title was 'The Mediterranean Caper'.
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Summary: What a Terrific Novel !!!! Could Not Put It Down !!!!
Review: What a great book!!! I believeable terrifying novel that I could not put down. Terrific characters and a well thought out plot that takes off and never slows down. I definately recommend this book.
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Summary: MAYDAY - A nonstop flight of adventure
Review: From beginning to end the reader is absorbed by the tension, terror, and trepidation that is being experienced by the characters. I often felt as if I were a passenger on the flight, unable to stop the events that DeMille unfolds for the characters and the reader.
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Summary: Almosts missed my flying lesson because I coundn't drop it!
Review: As a long dedicated Demille fan, I found this book to be one of his best. The action is great, the story moves right along, and the aviation technical detail is very good. I read through it in just a few days. I had a real problem with the Navy side of the story though. Having been in the Navy myself and worked on surface weapons, I know all the checks and balances that go into a firing, and by my own experience this could never have really happened. It was a good story and if you have no idea about how these things work you won't notice. I hope everyone else enjoys this book as much as I did.
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