The Day After Tomorrow

De: Allan Folsom

Narrado por: Edward Herrmann

A New York Times bestseller.

In a Paris cafe, American surgeon Paul Osborn looks across the room and spots the man who murdered his father 30 years before. In London, a grizzled L.A. homicide cop named McVey joins Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery of a severed head and seven headless corpses. Neither American knows the link between the long-ago killing and the recent murders. But Paul’s obsession to catch his father’s killer will send him careening across Europe at breakneck speed, his life in the balance, his heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who may be his lover—or his downfall. Shadowing his every move is the relentless McVey. And haunting them both is a secret organization larger and more embracing than any the world has ever seen, preparing for an apocalypse to begin. . . .

“A heart-thumping, stay-up-late novel . . . wild, unputdownable and outrageous . . . brilliant!”—Los Angeles Times Book review©1994 Allan Folsom; (P)1994 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Good quick listen

I read this book when I was in my early 20s and remember really enjoying it. Then the movie with the same name came out and I was excited to see it, until I found out it had nothing to do with the book. This was a book that really stuck in my head and I've thought about re-reading it many times over the years. It's always interesting to go back over something that you read when you were young and see how your tastes and opinions have changed. This time around I found myself zoning out and drifting off. Perhaps because I already knew how it was going to end. I still really enjoyed the idea behind the story, though, and would recommend it to anyone. Because it's abridged it's a really quick and easy listen. The narrator was fantastic. He did all of the accents (Swedish, German, American, British, British slang, female) very convincingly. I have mixed opinions about the music in the recording. I don't normally like music in audio books, however, I felt like it added more to this book than it detracted.

Great story

I read this book 15 years ago and loved it! So much so that I visited Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. I was disappointed when I realized I had purchased an abridged version. It leaves out a lot of good story from the original text. Also, the music and production was too much. Hopefully there’s an unabridged version out there.

Critical -but for the good

I found the book to be both riviting and interesting until the very end. I did figure out what was in the box about 2/3's down the line because it was kind of obvious. Still, I thought the book and its presentation were well done.

Great story and non-stop action...

A highly entertaining and enjoyable story. It's like seeing a movie but using your ears instead of your eyes.

Absorption!

This story grabbed me this time as it did almost 20 years ago. Both listenings led to some white knuckle driving in the car as the suspense ebbed and flowed, ebbed and flowed and ebbed and flowed again and again.