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Title: Resurrection Day
Author: Brendan DuBois
Narrator: Rich McVicar
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-15
Publisher: Brendan DuBois
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
"Everyone remembers exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them."
In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of the nuclear war. The crisis was averted, but what would have happened if war had broken out? In Resurrection Day, award-winning author Brendan DuBois brings this horrific concept to life.
Critic Reviews:
"
Resurrection Day is the best 'what if' novel in years - more clever and resonant than Robert Harris's
Fatherland - and all the more scary because disaster was minutes away from happening for real. A book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever." (Lee Child)
"In his first novel outside of his acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series DuBois delivers an alternate-history thriller that deserves to be as popular as Robert Harris'
'Fatherland. DuBois postulates an America that has been politically devastated by a nuclear exchange arising from the Cuban missile crisis.... Cohesively plotted and smoothly written, steadily exciting and rife with clever conceits, this is what-if thriller fiction at its finest." (
Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Iinteresting Historical what if !
I was always intrigued to listen to this book , I like a good Historical what if story, and the Cuban missile crisis was a big one ! I really think this book could have been edited a lot more, I would have made easier reading , overall not a bad story , but the narration was terrible , very lack lustre , and his English accents were atrocious ! I think a good narrator can even make an average book good , and a bad narrator can make a good book real hard to listen to !
Great contrafactual story - awful British accent
"Resurection Day" is a great, contrafactual 'what if' story, no doubt about it. Its description of the consequences of a "limited" nuclear war is chilling and bleak, especially with what is going on in North Korea these days. The reader, Rich McVicar, is competent except for one thing: His attempt at an English accent. It is atrocious, horrible and just plain wrong. Thus, he makes one of the characters, (Sandy, an upper-class Englishwoman from London), pronounce "Manhattan" as "ManHARtan" and her own name as "SARN-dy, which nobody does or has ever done. His accent comes across as a weird mixture of Jamaican and Hollywood "posh" by way of Keanu Reeves in "Dracula." It is truly, frighteningly, horribly bad, and it seriously detracts from your enjoyment of the novel. Which is really a pitty, seeing how great the story is. :(
Interesting if you like a Kennedy homage
Would you consider the audio edition of Resurrection Day to be better than the print version?
Don't know, as didn't read the print version
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Writer had some interesting ideas that were key to me continuing to listen. Some details were a bit much and oddly at times a bit too little, and the constant love affair with JFK got over way over the top at times. So much so I almost stopped the book more than once.
What aspect of Rich McVicars performance would you have changed?
He has a poor English accent, a main character that is from NYC I think he tried to give a NYC accent to but didn't manage it.
