Disaster Plan

Rating:
Summary: Disaster Plan never skips a beat.
Review: Ed Plaisted scores the winning touchdown with this Superbowl of a mystery thriller.

Disaster Plan is a rollicking ride that takes you through the underground world of sports gambling, to pro football playoffs, cross a picket line during a bitter strike and up in the clouds during an air flight disaster. With stops in Miami, Germany, Dallas and the wilds of the Florida Everglades.

The action never skips a beat, although your heart may; in several chapters, you'll be on the edge of your chair. Plaisted doesn't fumble with the plot. He has a winning game plan. His characters are so vividly, skillfully and realistically drawn that you'll soon forget its fiction.

There's the troubled pro quarterback and his team, the kindly priest, the grizzled sports columnist, the hated team owner, his golddigging wife, her dapper Ivy League boy-toy, enough slimy criminals to fill the county jail on a Saturday night, and the quick-thinking "Sky Princess" flight attendant.

All have their secrets -- and their stories weave together in a twisting, turning plot that will keep you guessing.

This is not a book for the high school library or your Great-Auntie Grizelda who thinks TV today is too dirty. Plaisted's characters are a lusty bunch; there are two rapes and innumerable steamy sex scenes. But, the book's main focus is the mystery behind the deaths of the Miami Sharks players.

Plaisted pickles the plot with enough red herrings to stuff in a can of sardines. Each suspect could have been the one whodunnit. As the columnist unravels the mystery, the stakes get even higher.

Hollywood would love this tale -- it's an airplane disaster movie, a gritty look at steamy South Florida, a crime thriller, a gangster flick, a love story, a sports movie, a murder mystery and a tale of intrique all in one. It could star an ensemble cast of your favorite stars.(Are you listening, George Clooney?).

But don't wait for the movie; this is such a good book, you should rush out and read it right away. No fair peeking at the last pages -- you'll ruin a great ending.

Rating:
Summary: Disaster Plan never skips a beat.
Review: Ed Plaisted scores the winning touchdown with this Superbowl of a mystery thriller.

Disaster Plan is a rollicking ride that takes you through the underground world of sports gambling, to pro football playoffs, cross a picket line during a bitter strike and up in the clouds during an air flight disaster. With stops in Miami, Germany, Dallas and the wilds of the Florida Everglades.

The action never skips a beat, although your heart may; in several chapters, you'll be on the edge of your chair. Plaisted doesn't fumble with the plot. He has a winning game plan. His characters are so vividly, skillfully and realistically drawn that you'll soon forget its fiction.

There's the troubled pro quarterback and his team, the kindly priest, the grizzled sports columnist, the hated team owner, his golddigging wife, her dapper Ivy League boy-toy, enough slimy criminals to fill the county jail on a Saturday night, and the quick-thinking "Sky Princess" flight attendant.

All have their secrets -- and their stories weave together in a twisting, turning plot that will keep you guessing.

This is not a book for the high school library or your Great-Auntie Grizelda who thinks TV today is too dirty. Plaisted's characters are a lusty bunch; there are two rapes and innumerable steamy sex scenes. But, the book's main focus is the mystery behind the deaths of the Miami Sharks players.

Plaisted pickles the plot with enough red herrings to stuff in a can of sardines. Each suspect could have been the one whodunnit. As the columnist unravels the mystery, the stakes get even higher.

Hollywood would love this tale -- it's an airplane disaster movie, a gritty look at steamy South Florida, a crime thriller, a gangster flick, a love story, a sports movie, a murder mystery and a tale of intrique all in one. It could star an ensemble cast of your favorite stars.(Are you listening, George Clooney?).

But don't wait for the movie; this is such a good book, you should rush out and read it right away. No fair peeking at the last pages -- you'll ruin a great ending.