Book 55 of 26 -- Nelson DeMille's Wild Fire

Nelson DeMille made a career writing thoroughly entertaining Cold War spy novels. When the Cold War ended, DeMille was able to adapt his wwriting very well by incorporating other true stories into fictionalized accounts. This was best seen by his book Night Fall -- a story focussing on the July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 crash.

Wild Fire is a return to the spook and scare of the Cold War period. It follows a conspiracy within the United States government to set off two nuclear devices in two major American cities.



Why?-- you may ask... Well, to set off a program entitled Wild Fire. Real or not, DeMille has created a scary prospect. The United States actively tells terrorists around the world that if ANY group takes any action, there are 230 nuclear warheads aimed at all suspected terror spots.

What better way to engage this "Mutually Assured Destruction" than to set off a bomb in your own country?

The smart ass protagonist and his wife FBI agent work together to stop or not stop the attack.

It is an easy ready that falls victim to too much detail every once in awhile, but that's fine -- especially since the story gets really good in the middle.

500 pages of milky goodness. I liked this book a whole bunch.