whaney's review against another edition
5.0
Loved this book! A serious book with the wonderful character, John Carey, who always has the last word with great quips throughout the book. His comments about bears and his concerns about seeing one is quite funny. His wife, Kay, puts up with him and is usually trying to keep him in line... which doesn't usually work, even though she is his boss.
orygunn's review against another edition
4.0
Another interesting John Corey story read masterfully by Scott Brick. Project Green and Wildfire still are scary concepts 10 years after this was first written. Nice to see Kate develop some depth too.
swajoed's review against another edition
2.0
Whole master Plan was revealed early in the book and the rest of the book was just you waiting for the main characters to figure it all out.
mad_about_books's review against another edition
5.0
Nelson DeMille is a man with a devious mind. It takes such a mind to come up with a plausible thriller, and, unfortunately the plot of WILD FIRE is not only plausible but possible. He's also quick to point out that post 9/11 aviation security (TSA, checkpoints at the airport, and taking off your shoes) applies only to commercial aircraft. If you fly private, there is no security at all. So grandma, with her bad hip and cane, gets scanned, wanded, and patted down. Your not so friendly terrorist can fly anywhere and transport anything without fear of getting caught.
John Corey is a stubborn cuss with a pathological need to be in the middle of the action… orders from above be damned. His traits, that include truth and justice at their most basic, have been repeated on many TV shows. John Corey is the everyman cop's cop.
Kate Mayfield is an FBI agent, lawyer, and John Corey's boss, partner and wife. This may sound like a disaster waiting to happen, but somehow they make it work.
WILD FIRE is a 'what if' book that will make your hair stand on end… maybe even set your hair on fire. After 9/11 there were any number of theories - some of the conspiracy variety, some not - but the scenario of this book is a conspiracy that goes pretty close to the top echelon of government. Calling it a thriller doesn't begin to do it justice.
John Corey is a stubborn cuss with a pathological need to be in the middle of the action… orders from above be damned. His traits, that include truth and justice at their most basic, have been repeated on many TV shows. John Corey is the everyman cop's cop.
Kate Mayfield is an FBI agent, lawyer, and John Corey's boss, partner and wife. This may sound like a disaster waiting to happen, but somehow they make it work.
WILD FIRE is a 'what if' book that will make your hair stand on end… maybe even set your hair on fire. After 9/11 there were any number of theories - some of the conspiracy variety, some not - but the scenario of this book is a conspiracy that goes pretty close to the top echelon of government. Calling it a thriller doesn't begin to do it justice.
adrienneambo's review against another edition
4.0
John Corey does it again. Set in upstate New York with a maniacal billionaire business man on the loose, the book mixes terrorism with conspiracy theory. The sardonic demeanor of Corey and his laugh out loud asides keep the reader flipping pages. One cannot read this book without questioning the "Wag the Dog" theory of war.
kathyemmons's review against another edition
4.0
I loved this one! The dialogue between John Corey and his wife, Kate Mayfield, is classic and it's a great suspense story.
weaselweader's review against another edition
4.0
A frighteningly plausible story of the escalation of global terrorism!
To paraphrase Nelson DeMille's own words about Wild Fire ... if this novel doesn't frighten you, it certainly should!
On one level, Wild Fire is a well-crafted, enjoyable but relatively routine police procedural which details John Corey's doggedly skilled but definitely off-the-wall and well outside the boundaries investigation of fellow agent Harry Muller's disappearance and murder. As a character starring in his fourth outing (Plum Island, Lion's Game and Night Fall were the first three novels), Corey comes as a package with no surprises. He's brash, vulgar, earthy, outrageously opinionated, self-righteous and arrogant, in your face, sarcastic to a fault and oversexed. Yet he can also be witty, humorous, kind, warm, loving and even self-effacing on the odd occasion when his beautiful wife Kate Mayfield slaps him upside the head and brings him down to earth a little! While his personal version of teamwork is somewhat lacking, there can be no question of his loyalty to the people he believes are on that team.
On a second level, Wild Fire is a terrifying tale of the escalation of global terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 and the destruction of New York's World Trade Center. A 21st century version of the 1960's Cold War MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), Wild Fire is a plan to reduce the Middle East to a radioactive glassy parking plot in response to any Islamic terrorist nuclear attack on an American city. The plan, set to operate entirely automatically with a feather light hair trigger, would kill hundreds of millions of practicing Moslems and, of course, eliminate the Islamic faith in the blink of an eye. That Wild Fire is presented in such a fashion as to appear entirely reasoned and plausible is chilling and thought-provoking enough. That a US right wing plot to trigger Wild Fire by the suitcase nuke bombing of San Francisco and Los Angeles is presented as a realistic possibility given the existence of such a plan is positively terrifying!
Those who love suspense thrillers and members of John Corey's fan club will eat this one up. Highly recommended!
Paul Weiss
To paraphrase Nelson DeMille's own words about Wild Fire ... if this novel doesn't frighten you, it certainly should!
On one level, Wild Fire is a well-crafted, enjoyable but relatively routine police procedural which details John Corey's doggedly skilled but definitely off-the-wall and well outside the boundaries investigation of fellow agent Harry Muller's disappearance and murder. As a character starring in his fourth outing (Plum Island, Lion's Game and Night Fall were the first three novels), Corey comes as a package with no surprises. He's brash, vulgar, earthy, outrageously opinionated, self-righteous and arrogant, in your face, sarcastic to a fault and oversexed. Yet he can also be witty, humorous, kind, warm, loving and even self-effacing on the odd occasion when his beautiful wife Kate Mayfield slaps him upside the head and brings him down to earth a little! While his personal version of teamwork is somewhat lacking, there can be no question of his loyalty to the people he believes are on that team.
On a second level, Wild Fire is a terrifying tale of the escalation of global terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 and the destruction of New York's World Trade Center. A 21st century version of the 1960's Cold War MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), Wild Fire is a plan to reduce the Middle East to a radioactive glassy parking plot in response to any Islamic terrorist nuclear attack on an American city. The plan, set to operate entirely automatically with a feather light hair trigger, would kill hundreds of millions of practicing Moslems and, of course, eliminate the Islamic faith in the blink of an eye. That Wild Fire is presented in such a fashion as to appear entirely reasoned and plausible is chilling and thought-provoking enough. That a US right wing plot to trigger Wild Fire by the suitcase nuke bombing of San Francisco and Los Angeles is presented as a realistic possibility given the existence of such a plan is positively terrifying!
Those who love suspense thrillers and members of John Corey's fan club will eat this one up. Highly recommended!
Paul Weiss
cnorbury's review against another edition
4.0
Another brilliant high-concept plot that was diluted by John Corey's boorish behavior at times. Yes, he's a brilliant detective but there were so many times when someone should have either slapped him upside the head or put a bullet through his brain (when he was a captive) to shut him up. And I'm starting to doubt his wife's attraction to him. He kind of seems like the male version of a gorgeous stereotypical bimbo whose only redeeming feature is her sexual attractiveness. Cut the wiseass remarks by at least half and this gets five stars.
karpoozy's review against another edition
4.0
The ending to this book was incredible, some parts were a little sluggish.
char931's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5