Apocalypse

by Dean Crawford

The future has changed its course.

In the notorious Bermuda Triangle a private jet vanishes without trace, taking with it scientists working for world-famous philanthropist Joaquin Abell.

In Miami, Captain Kyle Sears is called to a murder scene. A woman and her daughter have both been shot through the head. But within moments of arriving, Sears receives a phone call from the woman's husband, physicist Charles Purcell.

'I did not kill my wife and daughter. In less than twenty-four hours I too will be murdered and I know the man who will kill me. My murderer does not yet know that he will commit the act.'

With uncanny accuracy, Charles goes on to predict the immediate future just as it unfolds around Sears, and leaves clues for a man he's never met before: Ethan Warner.

The hunt is on to find Purcell, and Ethan Warner is summoned by the Defense Intelligence Agency to head up the search. But this is no ordinary case, as Warner and his partner Nicola Lopez are about to discover, and time is literally everything.

• ISBN10: 0857204750
• ISBN13: 9780857204752
• Publish Date: 8 November 2012 (first published 31 October 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 560
• Language: English

Reviews

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

"How many bodies are there?"

Short and sweet, but this first sentence grabbed me. It set the expectations and had me plowing through to learn the answer.

I just finished watching an episode of CNBC's show American Greed: Scams, it was on Rita Crundwell who embezzled 53 million dollars from her home town. How does this relate to Apocalypse? It sounds like an odd analogy but as with the docuprogram Apocalypse was sneaky and, like the town of Dixon wondered how I missed that.

The semi-time travel/futuristic aspect of the novel was a little odd and had to concentrate a little harder in those parts. To make another TV comparison, I was reminded of The Big Bang Theory. There is an episode where Sheldon, Lenard, Howard and Raj go in on a time machine. It sadly does not go anywhere but the boys have very imaginative (yet scientific) fantasies about using it. This compares to my thoughts on the "seeing into the future" paradox as that while it was an intricate part of the story did not move me in leaps and bounds but like Sheldon and Lenard, still found the concept interesting.

The Abells were a little shady in the fact that I wasn't quite sure what to believe, (at least at first) and thought they worked well off each other, like Ethel and Fred Mertz. Charles Purcell was an interesting fellow giving Dean Crawford's novel a little spice with his vigilant innocence and desire to see justice even if from afar. Ethan Warner, was calm, cool and collected in the face of danger and as the lead character held the storyline together. With such a vast plot it could be very easy to stretch the characters thin and have a homemade fix-it holding wires together with chewing gum and string, but Warner is the real deal, the super glue if you will, and a great agent to travel with.

Overall, Apocalypse was a calculated novel and thoroughly held my interest.