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IS NEW YORK BURNING (A NOVEL)

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Lapierre and Collins have plagiarized their own work. In 1980, they published a novel called "The Fifth Horseman," which was exactly the same as this one except that it's been updated, and where the villian in the first version was Khaddafi, it's now Osama Bin Laden. Same atomnic weapon smuggled into New York, same NY detective solves the case. How shameful to repackage the same dumb plot by changing a few names. The name of the publisher gives it all away: Phoenix House.

...and that too 'cos the tots can maybe learn a few famous names across the globe while reading this tripe.But even they won't be taken in by the flimsy plot and the almost comical unravelling.From the onset of the nuclear 'threat' the denouement becomes irritatingly obvious and the only feel-good factor about this book is that every reader will definitely come out thinking that he can do an infinitely better job than the authors....go read 3 little pigs,anyday more creative and more intense.

I agree with "The Reader"'s review. I can't believe the authors really wrote this book. I wanted to give up a few pages into the reading but since I had spent my money (unwisely) on buying one instead of (wisely) renting it, I plowed through to the end. The dialogues are laughably artificial, the plot is moronic, and the cliches make the reading pure torture. Please avoid this book like the plague. Spend your time and money elsewhere. I wish I could give this a negative 5 stars but 1 is the lowest I am allowed to go.

I was really looking forward to this book since I have always been a fan of their previous collaborations particularly the novel THE FIFTH HORSEMAN.
Lo and behold! this is a lowbudget update remake of that book right down to the scene where the mayor of New York tells the President that he will not stay in Washington while his city is in jeopardy.
The addition of real names to fictional characters does not a new book make.
Read THE FIFTH HORSEMAN - they did it better the first time around.

NO ONE HAS DONE IT BETTER IN THE TAN THEASE TWO WRITERS WHEN THEY WORK IN TANDEM.NOW THAT LARRY COLLINS HAS DIED THIS IS THIER LAST GEM ....NOT THIER BEST WORK BUT STILL FAR BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT. I AM HEART SICK THAT I WILL NEVER HAVE THE PLEASURE OF READING ANOTHER NEW NOEL BY THEASE MASTERS.

Larry Collins does a superb job of imagining what really would happen if the terrorists got a nuclear weapon. The action is believable, and the way he shows the government agencies, departments and foreign countries involved is fascinating. Nobody knows when, or if, anything like this will happen. Is New York Burning makes us think about it in concrete ways, and it delivers excitement and plenty of food for thought.

I was hoping for some new ideas, or even some interesting guessing about what would happen if New York City really was threatened with an atomic bomb. But the book jacket was as deep as this book got.

I have read a majority of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's joint books and I simply cannot believe that the authors of O Jerusalem penned this piece of garbage. It is so badly written it is painful to read. Dialogues are artificial and inadequate. Research is non-existant. It is a botched, shallow, akward book without substance or insight. Unbelievable.

This book brings back to the present the timeliness of the nuclear terror threat that the two authors had the prescient to point out twenty years ago. The research is thorough and the reading, with real life characters, is riveting. A must for those who seek to understand modern day terrorism threat through a fictional work that is really more fact than fiction.