I really liked the first three books of the John Corey series and all of them were 4.0 to 4.5 type books. DeMille really nailed it with book four. This one is a solid 4.7-4.8. It has all of the humor of the first three, but this one nails all of the other components needed - suspense, twists, story line, pacing, etc.

What makes it really great is finally DeMille has crafted a villain that is equal to his lead in Corey. The scenes between Corey and the bad guy are absolutely 10/10. Excellent dialogue and wit with great cat and mouse back and forth.

The plot is again centered on terrorism and is believable as usual. Highly recommended, but you likely need to have read the first three to truly enjoy this one for how good it is.

One of my favourites, because well.... John Corey.

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عاصفة النار والمشروع الأخضر خطة ثأرية وتقوم لضرب النووي للقضاء على الارهاب من قبل المجلس التنفيدي الموجود في نادي كاستر هيل ،، الذي هو في الظاهر نادٍ للرجال في بيت كبير فخم للصيد يضم أوسع رجال الأعمال نفوذاً والمسؤولين الحكوميين وضباط الجيش ويشكل مكاناً في الظاهر للاسترخاء مع الأصدقاء ،، تضم الرواية العديد من الشخصيات منها مادوكس وهو المنفذ لعاصفة النار وهاري مولر الضحية الذي تم قتله والسيد والسيدة كوري وهما المحققين في قضية قتل هاري مولر ومن ثم اكتشاف الخطر النووي ..

This book was MUCh better than "The Cuban Affair", it's older, and I like this main character. I'm going to keep reading this series as the subject matter is interesting to me.

This really deserves ***1/2 stars. The nuclear bomb plot is one we’ve seen countless times, but DeMille integrates it into his world in a genuinely scary way that comes across as more authentic than we realize. The way we Corey tackles huge catastrophes by boiling them down to a regular investigation is fascinating.

DeMille is the father of a couple of masterpieces, but that's not the case with Wild Fire. Almost the entire book looks like a more elaborated James Bond: the plot is one of epic magnitude, the bad guy has some charisma but his vanity makes him talk too much instead of a swift kill, the final scenes lack some credibility, as two unarmed and foot-cuffed persons win a battle against three armed men with military experience. In addition to these, John speaks too much rubbish, trying to be sympathetic, but finishes being tedious and annoying. So, three stars are more than enough...

John Corey character was very humorous which kept me reading to end. The fascinating story of a wacko guy trying to set of nuclear bombs in USA and sparking Wild Fire in middle eastern countries. John is a weak character and I did not enjoy the husband and wife team very far fetched. I read DeMille again after a few years and found his earlier books were much better written stories.

i enjoy nelson demille's writing and have always been a fan of john corey. i think i like him because he's a bit of a smart-aleck---as am i. this time there was entirely to much wise cracking. he couldn't say ANYTHING without being smart mouthed and it got tiresome. earlier books were much better. i also don't see the chemistry between him and kate in this book. she's too intelligent to put up with his b-----it and not exerting her independence. oh well. i'll probably read more of demille unless he continues along this track and keeps boring me.

boa historia, e com uma narrativa facil e envolvente.

Imagine a crazy person making plans to detonate a nuke in the USA.

This is what detective John Corey and his FBI agent wife discover when investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

But how can they stop it in time when the whole world seems to be against them?

It kept me on the edge of my seat and I enjoyed it.

I really like the plot here. But I HATE HATE HATE HATE the main character.

Plot: September 2002, Billionaire oil tycoon and some high up US govt officials plan to nuke LA/SF so the government sets into motion "Wild Fire" a secret protocol to nuke the entire Muslin world. It was inspired by Mutually Assured Destruction from the cold war, where we let the ruskies know that if they nuked us, we would remove their existence from the planet. John Corey and his wife/boss FBI agent solve a murder while uncovering this plot.

Protagonist: John Corey. Ex-NYC cop. Current detective on federal anti-terrorist task force. Married to FBI agent also on ATTF who is also his boss (not sure that would fly). Biggest dick head in the world. Is a huge asshole to everyone, absolutely everyone, including his wife and his superiors.

DeMille seriously takes the NYC ass-hole cliche wayyyyy too far here. Even in NYC half the characters already hate him, and every single person who meets him thinks he is a jerk, which he is. There is 0 chance this character could hold down a job, let alone one where you actually take orders. There is a 0 percent chance that his beautiful, smart, successful, kind wife would ever have spoken a second word to him, let alone start dating him, continue to date him, marry him, or stay married to him. This is a 700 page book (I listened to on tape, but the point is that it is a loong book), and during that time he is not nice to his wife 1 time. There are times where he isn't being actively mean, or disrespectful, but he wasn't nice once. Generally he was completely belittling her interests and ignoring her ideas, did I mention she was also his boss in law enforcement? Pretty sure that wouldn't fly. I do not buy into that whole, he is a total dick to her all day every day (and she seems to realize it and is always pissed at him), but then she can't resist him because he is handsome and charming.

I could barely get past how much I hated John Corey. Strangely this is the second book I read with John Corey (first being Night Fall), and I don't remember hating him at all and I think I probably liked his sarcasm and play by my own rules attitude. I think DeMille just took it too far in this one, to the point I couldn't believe Corey was a functioning member of society. I wanted him to get murdered by all the nice people who are trying to help him out, but he decides just to be a jerk to for no reason other than because that's who he is. I don't ever recall being so fed up with a character. If he had just backed off on that terrible shtick this would have been an exciting book with a crazy and exciting plot.

A frighteningly plausible story of the escalation of global terrorism!

To paraphrase Nelson DeMille's own words about WILD FIRE ... if this novel doesn't frighten you, it certainly should!

On one level, WILD FIRE is a well-crafted, enjoyable but relatively routine police procedural which details John Corey's doggedly skilled but definitely off-the-wall and well outside the boundaries investigation of fellow agent Harry Muller's disappearance and murder. As a character starring in his fourth outing (PLUM ISLAND, LION'S GAME and NIGHT FALL were the first three novels), Corey comes as a package with no surprises. He's brash, vulgar, earthy, outrageously opinionated, self-righteous and arrogant, in your face, sarcastic to a fault and oversexed. Yet he can also be witty, humorous, kind, warm, loving and even self-effacing on the odd occasion when his beautiful wife Kate Mayfield slaps him upside the head and brings him down to earth a little! While his personal version of teamwork is somewhat lacking, there can be no question of his loyalty to the people he believes are on that team.

On a second level, WILD FIRE is a terrifying tale of the escalation of global terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 and the destruction of New York's World Trade Center. A 21st century version of the 1960's Cold War MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), WILD FIRE is a plan to reduce the Middle East to a radioactive glassy parking plot in response to any Islamic terrorist nuclear attack on an American city. The plan, set to operate entirely automatically with a feather light hair trigger, would kill hundreds of millions of practicing Moslems and, of course, eliminate the Islamic faith in the blink of an eye. That WILD FIRE is presented in such a fashion as to appear entirely reasoned and plausible is chilling and thought-provoking enough. That a US right wing plot to trigger WILD FIRE by the suitcase nuke bombing of San Francisco and Los Angeles is presented as a realistic possibility given the existence of such a plan is positively terrifying!

Those who love suspense thrillers and members of John Corey's fan club will eat this one up. Highly recommended!

Paul Weiss