'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer. 'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams.įrom out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie. keeps ratcheting up the suspense.' BOOKLIST (Aug.'A really entertaining thriller like Michael Crichton. Other authors have done better with similar material.
What they find leads to the direct involvement of the American president, as well as a cardinal who’s “the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in the United States.” The implausible plot suffers from a lack of characterization and suspense. Meanwhile, psychologist Martha Chan is dragooned by the military to join a team of experts including a biologist, a climatologist, and an astrophysicist to determine what flattened part of the nearby forest and crushed all living things in that area.
Then eight-year-old Sophie starts bleeding, curses her 16-year-old sibling, and turns violent. When a sudden, horribly painful noise disrupts the girls while they are hunting rabbits, their parents lock them in a cellar for protection. Sisters Tennant and Sophie Riggin live with their parents in a survivalist community near Oregon’s Mount Hood. Bestseller Patterson and Barker follow 2020’s The Coast-to-Coast Murders with a tired variation on a familiar theme-a baffling phenomenon devastates a community, triggering a massive government response to contain the truth and limit the loss of life.
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