Twilight

By Brendan DuBois

Book Overview

For years UN peacekeepers have been deployed to war-torn regions of the world from Rwanda to Serbia and Congo to East Timor. Now it's America's turn. Samuel Simpson is a young, idealistic journalist from Canada. Seeking adventure, he volunteers to become a records keeper for a UN war-crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. Months earlier, a crippling terrorist attack against the United States resulted in its cities being emptied, its countryside set afire, and its government shaken to its knees. In the aftermath of this attack, a virtual civil war broke out, until UN peacekeepers arrived to establish an uneasy peace. While Samuel and his team travel through the New York countryside, searching for evidence of an atrocious war crime, he promptly realizes that death is quick to strike from any farmhouse, road corner, or rest area. Even more chillingly, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in his team, trying not only to conceal important evidence, but working to betray and kill them all, including the woman he loves. Award-winning author Brendan DuBois paints a disturbing and poignant portrait?in this smart, fast-paced?thriller.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312361378
• ISBN13: 9780312361372
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A 5-star gripping tale of mystery and suspense

Twilight is an outstanding and dramatic adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns. And young Canadian journalist, Samuel Simpson, is about to find himself right in the middle of it all. Putting his career at the Toronto Star on hold, Samuel joins the U.N. forces now stationed in the war-torn state of New York, in the United States of America. Although he has visited the US many times searching for good deals on casual shopping trips, he is now searching the small deserted villages and ravished farmlands for the remains of victims of the militia attacks. Terrorist attacks on several major US cities, along with a series of nuclear bombs hidden in suitcases and moved by balloon over strategic locations in airspace, have disrupted electronic communication and devastated one of the most powerful countries in the world. The land of the free, a place people used to run to, is now spotted with ravaged cities that people run away from to search for security, safety, and even food. One of a team of six UNFORUS members guarded by a US marine, Samuel attempts to keep his mind on his job: documenting war crimes and the trail of destruction that is left behind each new attack. But it is difficult to concentrate on taking pictures and writing notes when there is no safe place to sleep, not enough to eat, and a beautiful teammate who keeps catching his eye and eventually captures his heart. Award-winning author Brendan DuBois has once again spun a gripping tale of mystery and suspense that will pull you into the story's grasp and leave you eager for the next thriller to unfold. Currently living in New Hampshire with his wife, Mona, DuBois continues to create believable characters that come to life gradually throughout each story, expressing the author's imagination in pen and ink. Armchair Interviews says: A 5-star hold-onto-your-chair read!

may be the thriller of the year

Canadian journalist Samuel Simpson joins as a grunt a United Nations peacekeeping force that is also investigating terrorism and war crimes. His unit seeks to find the evidence that will bring to justice those who committed the crimes against mankind before and during the recent civil war and those who continue the atrocities. His tour of duty is New York months after a dirty bomb destroyed much of Manhattan and other attacks eliminated most of the American electric grid. The United States collapsed and a civil war further devastated the country. As Samuel and his undersized squad investigate a particular ugly atrocity in Upstate New York, he realizes as snipers kill some of his peers that anyone could be the angel of death. This may be the thriller of the year as Brendan DuBois combines plenty of action, twists especially that initial set up in which the audience assumes some Baltic or African nation is the setting, and introspection on what is a war crime to include torture. Samuel is an interesting protagonist as he is starts out naïve and idealistic, but quickly becomes mature and caustically realistic as he helplessly sees death everywhere. Readers will ponder beyond the presidential candidates and White House sound bites to what if an even greater more concerted attack occurred to America than 9/11 once we understand who the Belgians are donating tents to. Harriet Klausner