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Title: The Talbot Odyssey by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446358584 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96
Rating: 2
Summary: Not to be believed
Comment: As a DeMille fan, even I thought this a real stretch. I'm not sure how contracts work, but this had to be the last of a multi-book deal. I thought "General's Daughter" was hard to imagine, that was plausable compared to "Talbot's..." DeMille does not know how to write poorly - that would probably be like asking a good speller to make some mistakes, just to write faster. On the other hand the setting, circumstances, the private nature of a bunch of elderly, retired OSS types mounting an assault on a Russian country home in New Jersey - and having the CIA, NSA and lord knows how many more initials allow and even participate is odd in the extreme. The notion of EMP, or Electronic Pulse bringing down the USA is not new, I guess the first time I read it in popular fiction was in "View to Kill" - a James Bond thriller sometime in the 80's - I think they even made a movie of it. But if you like implausable plots, circumstance, and a body c! ount to rival any Terminator movie - this is for you. By unofficial count, before the book even got to the assault stage, not less than 17 or so folks met their just deserts - these were the 'more or less' good guys. You have folks being shot, thrown off buildings, pushed out of planes, whacked on the head with rubber mallets and then the fellow's plane being put on auto pilot, stabbed in the head with an ice pick (bartender), strangled, eating a tuft of his own hair that had cyanide on it, not to mention the mundane machine guns and pistols - all silenced. The sound of all the dead bodies falling must have been deafening. I was struck by the number of 'groin' shots - at least two were shot, one was bayoneted and while not killed, at least one woman was kicked there. During the assault, one lost count. At one point, it appeared that some 200 people had been poisoned because they were at a noisy party, and over 100 Russian dependents were gassed - sleeping gas. Whew! Even so! , the book kept you busy, just trying to remember who was d! ead, who was thought to be dead, but really not, etc. At some point or another, there seemed to be only two people who were not double or triple agents, our hero the cop/lawyer and a dead guy. Then the dead guy comes back to life and is the ultimate enemy. If I had it to do over, I would have preferred to have borrowed this book from someone or picked it up at the library. I certainly hope that this was just an 'early' novel - it was published in 1993, and not indicative of future direction - though I have read other reviews of more recent books that sound the same - "Mayday". I sure hope DeMille has enough money and can now take the time to get a little closer to reality in the future - but that's why they call this form of writing a 'novel' - it sure was that.
Rating: 4
Summary: A "5 Course Meal" - Not a "Drive-Through"
Comment: I stumbled upon this gem after being disappointed with several previous DeMille Novels. The Talbot Odyssey is a "thinking person's" novel. It, much like real life, is NOT all excitement and adrenaline. DeMille does an outstanding job of character development and plot organization and development. While the crux of the plot is not an imminent threat which we face; it is entertaining and afterall this is a novel not a strategic arms treatise. This book requires tenacity from the reader and NO Page Skimming, or you'll miss the clues and hints that DeMille sews throughout the pages. If you've been disappointed with the Gold Coast and Plum Island and the Lion's Game - BUT if you liked the Charm School, Spencerville, and Word of Honor, then you will like the Talbot Odyssey.
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved it
Comment: I'm a big DeMille fan, ever since "The Charm School". Okay, "Spencerville" was awfully disturbing, "The General's Daughter" was just twisted, and "Plum Island" was a bit too formulaic, but even a bad DeMille is better than most Grisham or Clancy.
"The Talbot Odyssey" better parallels the charms of "Charm School" and "The Gold Coast," even "Cathedral". Above all, DeMille's humor delights consistently. The plot is consistently engaging. This is an easy, pleasant read.
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Title: Cathedral by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446358576 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mayday by Nelson Demille, Thomas H. Block ISBN: 0446604763 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson Demille, Nelson De Mille ISBN: 0446358592 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Word of Honor by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446301582 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Charm School by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446353205 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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