Black Sunday

De: Thomas Harris

Narrado por: Ron McLarty

When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die.

The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth . . .

Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend. He is fascinated with explosives. And he happens to be very, very crazy. That's why a beautiful PLO operative has seduced him. That's why--on Super Bowl Sunday--the world will witness the bloody assassination of the U. S. president and the worst mass murder in history. Unless someone discovers what Michael Lander plans . . . and can kill him first.©1975 Thomas Harris; (P)1999 Random House, Inc.; Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

Acclaim for the novels of Thomas Harris:

For Black Sunday:

"Frighteningly believable."
--Chicago Tribune

"Suspenseful, nightmarish."
--Los Angeles Times

"Breathtaking. All forces converge with an apocalyptic bang!"
--The New York Times

"Fast-paced, all too realistic... with a shattering climax."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A spellbinder... The race to save the Super Bowl is hair-raising, one that will keep you rooted to your chair."
--The Hartford Courant

For Red Dragon:

"Red Dragon is an engine designed for one purpose--to make the pulse pound, the heart palpitate, the fear glands secrete."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A gruesome, graphic, gripping thriller... Extraordinarily harrowing."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"Want to faint with fright? Want to have your hair stand on end? Want to read an unforgettable thriller with equal parts of horror and suspense? Harris was obviously only warming up with his best seller Black Sunday."
--Daily News (New York)

"Irresistible... A shattering thriller... Readers should buckle themselves in for a long night's read because from the first pages... Harris grabs hold."
--Publishers Weekly

"The scariest book of the season."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Easily the crime novel of the year."
--Newsday

Well....

I had to actually restart this audio twice to follow the beginning of the story. It got better and I ended up enjoying it. One thing I did notice with this audio though was the sound quality was terrible. You could actually tell when the narrator had picked up on a new day of recording. Of course Ron McLarty is the best even if the audio sucked.

This needs to be an updated movie.

Great read. Thomas Harris is a terrific storyteller. If you thought Hannibal, in silence of the lambs were good, you should read this one.

An outstanding apprentice piece

This is an outstanding apprentice piece. I have read the book in print a couple of times over the years. This is my first time to listen to it. I can hear a lot of what Harris is going to become as a future writer in this book. The reader's performance adds to the pleasure of the story.

TH at his best

this thriller is as good as it gets. from the middle east to Vietnam to the USA, this fine novel is full of vivid portraits of a world gone mad.

generic thriller, no twists

"Airport fiction" has its time a place. Books with the equivalent entertainment value of a Tom Cruise movie. I bought this book with that low expectation in mind. It did not deliver that low expectation. This is a generic thriller with no twist and 2 dimensional characters. Performance is good.