All Fall Down [Import] [Hardcover]

JOHN SAUL (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 311 pages
• Publisher: CORGI; First UK edition (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552990302
• ISBN-13: 978-0552990301
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,988,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

House of Reckoning is John Saul's thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include Faces of Fear, In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, Nightshade, The Right Hand of Evil, The Presence, Black Lightning, The Homing, and Guardian. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling serial thriller The Blackstone Chronicles, initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "All Fall Down" is simply the European release title for "The God Project.", July 15, 2005

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Alexiel (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Fall Down (Paperback)

"All Fall Down" is the same book as "The God Project," just released in a different market with a different cover. If you've already read or have "The God Project" and get this book, it'll be the same thing. It is the same book, just with a different cover. There is additional or added text and no editorial changes.

John Saul is not one of my favorite authors. I liked him as a kid, but by the mid-90s as I got older I was disillusioned by the fact that he never seemed to change his style and his books were plagued by a predictable sameness, as well as a lot of padding. However "All Fall Down," or "The God Project" as I will refer to it, is during Saul's heyday, while his books still felt fresh and innovative and his popularity was reaching its zenith.

It takes place in a small town, Eastbury, Massachusetts, which is stricken by an epidemic of SIDS in its seemingly healthy infants (also known as crib-death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Children start to turn up missing as well. One woman, Sally Montgomery, refuses to believe the SIDS explanation peddled to her as the cause of death for her baby girl. The parents of these child begin to come together and find out rather some rather chilling medical data about their children and who has been monitoring them with interest. I can't really tell more without giving away some vital plot spoilers, but if you've never read John Saul before, this is as fair a place to start as any. It's one of his better novels, and not that typical - most of his novels revolved around small children and horrible, often supernatural-seeming happenings in small towns.

So I guess I'd recommend this book. Once you get past a certain point, it becomes fairly predictable, and in the 20+ years since it's been released there have been enough other books in this vein to give you an idea about what's going on, but it still packs a decent wallop.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, June 10, 2010

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Linda Smith (CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Fall Down (Paperback)

New condition, great packaging, and I can't believe it got here so fast from England!