Resurrection Day

De: Brendan DuBois

Narrado por: Rich McVicar

"Everyone remembers exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them."

In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of the nuclear war. The crisis was averted, but what would have happened if war had broken out? In Resurrection Day, award-winning author Brendan DuBois brings this horrific concept to life.

©2014 Brendan DuBois (P)2015 Brendan DuBois

Reseñas de la Crítica

" Resurrection Day is the best 'what if' novel in years - more clever and resonant than Robert Harris's Fatherland - and all the more scary because disaster was minutes away from happening for real. A book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever." (Lee Child)

"In his first novel outside of his acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series DuBois delivers an alternate-history thriller that deserves to be as popular as Robert Harris' 'Fatherland. DuBois postulates an America that has been politically devastated by a nuclear exchange arising from the Cuban missile crisis.... Cohesively plotted and smoothly written, steadily exciting and rife with clever conceits, this is what-if thriller fiction at its finest." ( Publishers Weekly)

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!

I picked up this book again after about 20 years. I had a dream about a specific scene in the book and figured it couldn't hurt to reread it. I am an entirely different person than I was when I first read this, shortly after 9/11, and it is so very much better on the second visit with older, more mature and educated me. What a treasure. Usually, alternate histories aren't anything to write home about. They're sort of circling the drain of the same old tropes and points of divergence again and again. This is a refreshing take, on a less visited topic. I highly recommend this book. The story is good, the characters are good and the worldbuilding is even greater. Don't miss out!

riviting!

Transported me back to a world that could have been. Great narration and non stop action mystery thriller.

Enjoyable

Well-constructed story, good pacing and an interesting "what-if". Narrator has a nice voice, but absolutely terrible British accent, which was distracting. Apart from that, a good listen.

Iinteresting Historical what if !

I was always intrigued to listen to this book , I like a good Historical what if story, and the Cuban missile crisis was a big one ! I really think this book could have been edited a lot more, I would have made easier reading , overall not a bad story , but the narration was terrible , very lack lustre , and his English accents were atrocious ! I think a good narrator can even make an average book good , and a bad narrator can make a good book real hard to listen to !

Great alternative history

Actually 4.5 / 5 for story and 3.5 / 5 for narration but rounded up

Set in an alternative 1972, the USA is heading towards the 10 year anniversary of a nuclear war started when JFK failed to stop the Cuban Missle Crisis and Cuba fired upon the US. The story follows a retired solider turned investagative journalist Carl Landry as he investigates the murder of another war veteran. The murdered war vertan had previously contacted Landry promising the sotry of the centruy, and Landry starts to suspect that he may have been murdered because of that story. Landry must deal with government censorship, personal and societal shame about the events of the war, international politics and urban legends to get to the bottom of the murder.

This book is alternative history at it's finest, showing what could have been if the Cuban Missle Crisis hadn't ended in a stand-off. DuBois slowly releases details organiscally into the story explaining the events and how it came about and how the US has changed since. And everything about it just comes across as plausible - Collapse of NATO, European nations providing food and support etc (in a reverse Marshall plan sort of way), government or military men placed as editors at all newspapers to ensure that no unapproved story is printed, the shame of the people at what was done in retaliation, the oppressive atmosphere that means none of this is talked about openly... It just created a create mood for the book.

The story itself is full of twists and turns, with you never really sure until the end who is good and who is bad, and what each persons agenda is, and what the 'great story' the murdered vet actually had.

Absolutely loved it and I htink anyone who likes alternative history should check it out.

McVicar's narration is good. It took me a little while to get used to his accent (it is american, but I'm not sure which part it is from) but once I was used to it I was then able to really enjoy the book. He provides voices and accents for characters (although his initial british accent right at the start of the book was a little difficult to listen to) and provides the right inflection for what the characters said and did. Overall rather enjoyable.

This audiobook was provided by the narrator at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of audiobookblast dot com.