Resurrection Day - Hardcover

DuBois, Brendan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399144986 ISBN 13: 9780399144981

Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons, 1999

Synopsis

In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy. A first novel. 22,500 first printing.

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Review:

Brendan DuBois is an award-winning US author of mystery stories: this alternate-world thriller is very much in the tradition of Robert Harris's Fatherland. The striking blurb line: "Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them". History went awry in this world's Cuba crisis, leading to a 1962 nuclear war that devastated Russia, crippled America and left Britain a major world power smugly giving aid to the USA. Cut to 1972 Boston and ex-soldier Carl Landry, now a newspaper reporter whose coverage of a routine murder is suppressed by military censors. He's unwisely curious, investigates further and inevitably stirs up a hornets' nest. Attacks, deaths and disappearances follow. With a new-found girlfriend--an English Times reporter who is not all she seems--Landry uncovers a succession of red-hot secrets about abandoned New York, perfidious British and military plotting, and crucial documents coveted by several factions with different beliefs about their contents. Is Kennedy unjustly despised for starting World War Three? Is the rumour that he's still alive just this timeline's version of the Elvis myth? After building up terrific tension, DuBois delivers satisfying answers. Grimly plausible (apart from a few lapses in "British" dialogue) and worthy of the Fatherland comparisons. --David Langford

Review:

RESURRECTION DAY is the best 'what if (novel in years - more clever and resonant than Robert Harris')

FATHERLAND - and all the more scary because it was minutes away from happening for real. A book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever. (Lee Child)

DuBois has his finger right on the button in this thriller. (MIRROR)

This is a fascinating addition to the world of 'what if (fiction.')

About this edition

• Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0399144986
• ISBN 13: 9780399144981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 389