dead watch international edition john sandford

A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Not as tightly woven as Sandford’s best, but reliable thrills with some unexpected political overtones from a pro’s pro.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. In the expert hands of Sandford ( Broken Prey, 2005, etc.), the story flies along, keeping the action at such a furious pace, even without a high body count, that few readers will notice the glaring coincidences, the leaps of logic and the monumental good luck Jake needs to succeed as detective, lover (you’ll never guess who he falls for) and survivor. In order to do his job, though, Jake will need to stay out of the lethal crossfire between the armed and dangerous Watchmen and Bowe’s own friends, allies and ex-lovers, who turn out to be every bit as shady, determined and ruthless. But he may not be too late to contain an improbable cascade of scandals that hover around Bowe and threaten to bring down the president. Jake is too late to help Bowe, who’s already dead.

Attempting to stay ahead of its developments, Danzig calls in Jacob Winter, a go-to guy with a Special Forces pedigree who bills himself as a forensic bureaucrat, and tells him to find Bowe. But he is convinced that whatever happened to Bowe, the story is explosive. Bill Danzig, the president’s chief of staff, isn’t so sure.

Madison Bowe, his wife, is convinced that Watchmen were inside those suits.

Now Bowe has vanished after a typically fiery speech, gone missing in the company of some suits who spirited him away. The disappearance of a high-profile politician lights the fuse in Sandford’s latest high-octane, low-logic thriller.Įven after losing the Virginia governor’s race to Arlo Goodman and then losing his Senate seat to an undistinguished Goodman protégé, Lincoln Bowe has kept right on speaking out against Goodman and all his works-especially the Watchmen, a network of Goodman’s citizen-activists Bowe likens to neo-Nazis.

Dead watch international edition john sandford