Literature
Thomas Harris
Black Sunday
Author:Thomas Harris
Country: USA
Language: English
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date : 1975
Media type : Print (Hardback)
Pages: 318
Review
A brilliant read, I promise it: A terrorist conspiracy targets the Super Bowl. Thomas Harris, a former Associated Press reporter, knows how security apparatchiks operate, but the author of "The Silence of the Lambs" (1988) also tells a hell of a good story. Thriller writers tend not to be proud; certainly they do not usually pretend to have discovered life's great truths. The story rules, and the crucial question is: "What if . . .?" In this case, it is: What if Arab terrorists so detest the U.S. that they use a blimp to try to kill the president and 80,000 football fans in New Orleans on the big day? Here's the biggest compliment on offer to a popular novelist: I couldn't put it down.