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Title: The Day Before Midnight
Author: Stephen Hunter
Narrator: Philip Bosco
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-07
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 31 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
In Maryland, welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site: a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. Their mission: to unleash 35 megatons of nuclear doom in a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it.
But even as his torch burns closer to the launch key, a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard are hard at work, trying to get inside South Mountain by defeating their own super-security systems, straining to stop the clock¿and Armageddon.
Critic Reviews:
"A smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
a âdoomsdayâ thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and turning pages
This is an old school Stephen Hunter thriller that grabs you from the opening pages and takes you on a frenetic race that never lets up until it reaches a tense, dramatic conclusion.
A family is taken hostage and the father â a welder â is coerced into doing a treacherous job; a professor stumbles through a lecture as he tries to find some semblance of order in his life after a messy break-up with his wife; a Vietnam veteran is now imprisoned in solitary confinement; and a bungling Soviet spy who loves living in America barely survives an attempt on his life. These and other âordinaryâ people are pitted against a diabolical plan to launch the world into nuclear war â and with the clock counting down to midnight they are almost out of time.
Hunter is a brilliant writer and THE DAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT is a âdoomsdayâ thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and turning pages. Originally published more than 25 years ago, my only complaint is with the publishing company itself and not the quality of the writing or storytelling. I read the Kindle edition, and as is the case with many older books that were recently formatted for distribution on Kindle, itâs as if they did a quick and shoddy job. Many sections run together and are missing the âbreakâ that would separate them on the printed page. It made some parts confusing â additionally, there were some screwy characters due to the conversion process that someone should really have caught and edited before its release. But again, none of that has anything to do with the quality of the story â itâs a terrific thriller and I highly recommend it: 5/5 stars.
open the book and be ready for the ride of your life
Wow!! One of the best books Hunter has written. His characters are all flawed in some way, and yet he manages to make heroes of some. This a multi-threaded story. One jumps from one situation to another in the eyes of character.
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Title: The Day Before Midnight
Author: Stephen Hunter
Narrator: Philip Bosco
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-07
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 31 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
In Maryland, welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site: a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. Their mission: to unleash 35 megatons of nuclear doom in a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it.
But even as his torch burns closer to the launch key, a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard are hard at work, trying to get inside South Mountain by defeating their own super-security systems, straining to stop the clock¿and Armageddon.
Critic Reviews:
"A smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
a âdoomsdayâ thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and turning pages
This is an old school Stephen Hunter thriller that grabs you from the opening pages and takes you on a frenetic race that never lets up until it reaches a tense, dramatic conclusion.
A family is taken hostage and the father â a welder â is coerced into doing a treacherous job; a professor stumbles through a lecture as he tries to find some semblance of order in his life after a messy break-up with his wife; a Vietnam veteran is now imprisoned in solitary confinement; and a bungling Soviet spy who loves living in America barely survives an attempt on his life. These and other âordinaryâ people are pitted against a diabolical plan to launch the world into nuclear war â and with the clock counting down to midnight they are almost out of time.
Hunter is a brilliant writer and THE DAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT is a âdoomsdayâ thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and turning pages. Originally published more than 25 years ago, my only complaint is with the publishing company itself and not the quality of the writing or storytelling. I read the Kindle edition, and as is the case with many older books that were recently formatted for distribution on Kindle, itâs as if they did a quick and shoddy job. Many sections run together and are missing the âbreakâ that would separate them on the printed page. It made some parts confusing â additionally, there were some screwy characters due to the conversion process that someone should really have caught and edited before its release. But again, none of that has anything to do with the quality of the story â itâs a terrific thriller and I highly recommend it: 5/5 stars.
open the book and be ready for the ride of your life
Wow!! One of the best books Hunter has written. His characters are all flawed in some way, and yet he manages to make heroes of some. This a multi-threaded story. One jumps from one situation to another in the eyes of character.