The New Madrid Run (Paperback)

by Michael Reisig (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
A roller-coaster adventure ride with a wonderful variety of characters and perpetual motion action. Hang on to your seat! -- Roi Best -- actor, audio book narator/performer

This should be adventure audiobook of the year. What a story!What a great premise. -- John Dowdy, Crystal Recording Studios

Thought-provoking, frightening -- the best adventure since Stephen King introduced the plague to modern man. -- The Texarkana Gazette --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Description
What if the earth came apart at the seams -- and you survived?

Within a few terrifying hours the earth's poles shift and modern civilization is shattered...A small band of castaways in the Florida Keys begin the adventure of a lifetime as they sail north in a desperate gambit for survival, but high seas pirates, fierce storms, and ultimately, the man who would be king, stand between them and a place of refuge. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Clear Creek Press; 2nd edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965124010
• ISBN-13: 978-0965124010
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #788,255 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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59 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing., May 8, 2000

By	H. Johnson "Hal Johnson" (Bella Vista, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The New Madrid Run

The post-apocalypse genre of novels has always been one of my guilty pleasures. (My wife kids me that it's a "sure sign of a sick mind.") While this novel doesn't rank with "Lucifer's Hammer," "The Stand," "Alas, Babylon," or "Warday," I enjoyed it nevertheless.

I noted in some previous reviews that some readers found cause to savage Mr. Reisig's writing abilities. To a degree, I concur with some of them. (Although certainly not to the extent that I'd agree with one reviewer that his writing is "amateurish.") The sentence structure is awkward at times, the dialog doesn't always flow so well, and character development is a little sketchy.

However, those limitations notwithstanding, the story line of this novel has loads of punch, and Mr. Reisig's spare, direct, journalist's style fairly careens the reader through the plot. The author seems much less infatuated with the thesaurus than most new novelists, and that's refreshing in itself.

All in all, I found "The New Madrid Run" pretty doggone engrossing, and for readers who enjoy this genre, that's recommendation enough. HJ

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thouroughly Enjoyed The Book, December 26, 1999

By	Beverly (United States) - See all my reviews

This book held my attention from the very beginning of the story. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for what would happen next. I put myself in the book as I was reading and found that the possibility of the diaster that happened was very probable. Realizing this made the book much more real. What would we do if this happened and how would we prepare ourself for the event that all that we knew was gone. The book made me do a lot of thinking about what could happen. I could not put this book down until it was finished, then wanted more. Highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a great story.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst books I've ever read, August 1, 2000

By	Dr. John T. Fleming (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

There have probably been worse books I've started but this is one of the worst books I've ever read cover to cover (and I tend to read a couple of books a week). This is the only work of fiction I've reviewed here because what a person enjoys in fiction is a personal and subjective judgement. If you don't like horror, no matter how good a job Steven King does you are probably not going to enjoy it; but as I do enjoy this genre, I felt I could review it relative to other apocalyptic novels. I recently decided to read/reread a bunch of these novels in a row: Fail-safe, earth abides, alas babylon, the last ship, a canticle for leibowitz, the stand and the new madrid run. This is by far the worst of the bunch - its all cliches, unbelievable dialogue and even less believable characters. You never get even a hint of honest emotion about what it might feel like to have the world as we know it disappear overnight. I still wouldn't have been so annoyed except for the fact that the blurb on the back of the book: "Adventure to make Clive Cussler envious! Riveting description and emotion. This one has it all. " - The Mena Star, is the same paper that the author of this book writes for and is an editior. I'm guessing that the Mena Arkansas Star is a small enough operation that using this review is pretty incestuous and by my way of thinking not particularly ethical.