Cathedral by Nelson DeMille
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Book Reviews of Cathedral
Book Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read a number of books by DeMille.I've fouind them to be intelligent, well-written and highly entertaining.
Cathedral, which describes an abortive attempt by some IRA defectors to blow up St Patrick's cathedral in New York, has deep resonance in view of the attack on the WTC.
The plot was engaging and gripping. Flynn, the Irish protagonist was the perfect anti-hero. Indeed, I found myself longing for him and his band of conspirators to win - odd, as I spent a number of years fighting against the IRA in Ulster.
Plots within plots, strings being pulled by unknown puppet-masters, the story drew me from page to page like a driven animal. I just had to find out what happened. The book was unputdownable!
One thing i noticed (being English) is that Demille uses English forms of verb past tenses rather than American. Wonderful!! At last an author whose characters 'shone a light' rather than 'shined a light', who 'lit a cigarette' rather than 'lighted a cigarette'.
I'd happily buy any book from this author.
Book Review: Action, adventure, intrigue, spys, terrorists, politics...
Summary: 5 Stars
Much like the novel By the Rivers of Babylon, this novel has a big cast of characters and lots of action and intrigue. DeMille captures the politics involved and shows some evil and good on both sides of the fight.
One of the reasons I love DeMille so much is unfortunately missing in this novel, and that's a first person point of view protagonist. However, there is one main character that is hero of the novel, and while not quite as good, it's reads great and overall the whole story is great.
No need to go over the plot line and details again, so I'll just say that if you enjoy DeMille, you'll like this one too, if you've never read him, well, this is as good a place to start as any, but keep in mind that some of his other novels are quite different.
DeMille is a great novelist if you haven't tried out some of his stuff, you're missing out.
Book Review: An interesting Read!
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a very interesting book. It had goos heroes,it had evil villains, and a very good plot. DeMille covered the situaion of the Seizing of the Cathedral very well. By using his characters in the story DeMille was able to show both sides of the situation. The history of the Irish scene was shown well by the use of the Irish terrorist Hickey. The use of Saint Patrick's Day as the day of invasion of Saint Patrick's Cathedral also came off very well. DeMille also used his police personnel very skill- fully to make the story interesting.Major Martin,the British Consulate in the story was established as a major villain in the story. The finale,the rescue operation of the Chapel was well done. The sniper,Leary came off as a cold blooded killer. The revenge on Major Martin was also good. This is a very well written book. A definite must readBook Review: Awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
This great story lets the reader into the minds of the characters on each side of the seige. DeMille has a way of making you care about each of the characters (good and bad). He even does a good job of giving life to most of the supporting characters. His characters are great, the dialog is top notch (as always), and his setting is amazing. I've never seen St. Patricks Cathedral, but DeMille made it very easy to visualize it (the diagrams in the front were a great touch).I've always described reading a DeMille book as watching a movie in your mind. This one is no exception. The action and suspence are great. If you can, read the last section in one sitting. It will be worth it, and I bet you won't be able to put it down at that point anyway.
Also recommend Plum Island, and Jeffery Deaver's The Devil's Teardrop and A Maiden's Grave.
Book Review: Great Suspenseful Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides this book, I've read "The Charm School," "Word of Honor," "The General's Daughter," and "The Gold Coast."They are all excellent books.
Throughout reading this exciting story, I could definitely visualize all of the details. And I found myself saying, "What if ..." several times.
Reading this book also opened my mind to being curious about the architecture of churches.
And when you read this book your heart will race as you become drawn into the drama that you just have to be part of.