Apocalypse

by Dean Crawford

A private Learjet filled with scientists travels across the ocean toward Miami. As it passes through the Bermuda Triangle, strange effects disturb the instruments and violent weather envelops the aircraft until it plummets out of control and vanishes without trace.

In Miami, Sheriff Kyle Sears arrives at a murder scene. A woman and her daughter have both been shot through the head. But while Sears is still on the scene he receives a phone call from the woman's husband. With uncanny accuracy, he predicts the immediate future just as it unfolds around Sears, before revealing that he, too, will be murdered within 24 hours. The man gives him the name of someone he must contact. Ethan Warner.

As Ethan Warner and his partner Nicola Lopez race to investigate, they are thrown into the centre of a mind-boggling plot to blow a hole in the space-time continuum.

• ISBN10: 1451659490
• ISBN13: 9781451659498
• Publish Date: 18 March 2014 (first published 31 October 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: The Gallery Press
• Imprint: Gallery Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 406
• 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.