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Vaccine Nation
by
David Lender (Goodreads Author)
Dani North is a filmmaker who just won at the Tribeca Film Festival for her documentary, The Drugging of Our Children, a film critical of the pharmaceutical industry. When she is handed “whistleblower” evidence about the U.S. vaccination program, she has to keep herself alive long enough to expose it before a megalomaniacal pharmaceutical company CEO can have her killed.
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(first published November 22nd 2011)
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Great thriller with pace, suspense, action, real emotion and twists and turns that will keep you interested until the final surprise(s) at the end. I've read his other books and enjoyed them. This one is a different approach: more action, breakneck pace and some truly evil people. Less subtle, more raw than his others. His Q&A on Amazon said he was shooting for North by Northwest, Marathon Man and Six Days of the Condor. He nailed it.
David Lender's story Vaccine Nation moves like a freight train, pitting the ruthless ambitions of a morally bankrupt pharmaceutical company CEO against investigative filmmaker Dani North. Caught in the middle of a ruthless power play, North unwittingly becomes the last guardian of long suppressed evidence that could turn the multi-billion dollar vaccine industry on it's head. As the body count rises, Dani finds herself pursued by brutal assassins and every law enforcement agency on the East Coas...more
Great action thriller with great pace, characters and plotting. This reads like smooth buttermilk (I love buttermilk), flowing briskly, never bogging down and making you believe in the characters early on. Dani is a courageous young filmmaker who has evidence of something, we aren't sure what, foisted on her, and then witnesses the murder of the vaccine researcher who gives it to her. Subsequent events (I won't spoil it) put the police on her tail, after she already has the murderer after her to...more
Very interesting thriller based on the idea of a conspiracy in the pharmaceutical industry to profit from selling untested and dangerous vaccines. If you are a vaccine advocate this book will drive you crazy and there is no practical chance that you will enjoy it. However, if you are one of the millions of Americans who is beginning to recognize, and become alarmed by, the rising incidences of autism in our children then this story will be very appealing. If you don't have an opinion about vacci...more
I usually avoid thriller/suspense/mystery books of any sort, because I truly just don't enjoy reading them. As a mother of two young boys, who has chosen an alternate vaccination schedule for them, and done some research of my own on the subject, I was hooked from when I first spotted the title. I bought the book without even reading the description, and I truly enjoyed reading it. I thought the charachters were great, though slightly predictable at times, the backbone of the story, (the drug ma...more
One of the best thrillers I've read in recent memory, on the heels of three other of this author's work. A scrappy, young protagonist (a single mom) is put on the run after a murder. The murdered man hands her something and the race is on for our heroine to find out what it means, expose it/and or use it as evidence in Senate hearings to change the current approach to the vaccination program in the US. The action is fluid, the characters engaging (a vile antagonist, a drug CEO, is even made huma...more
Thrillers are not my usual genre and I'm not fond of ongoing chase plots. However, Lender's Vaccine Nation has crafted both so well, his story kept me reading from the very beginning and engrossed until the end.
The topic, mandatory vaccinations for children, is one I had a strong opinion on and Lender managed to change my thinking. With accurate research into the topic, the author pulls the reader into the details of the debate, until we couldn't wait for the ending. Which, by the way, I loved!...more
The topic, mandatory vaccinations for children, is one I had a strong opinion on and Lender managed to change my thinking. With accurate research into the topic, the author pulls the reader into the details of the debate, until we couldn't wait for the ending. Which, by the way, I loved!...more
This "mystery novel" is thinly-disguised propaganda concerning the dangers of vaccinating our children. Whether there's any truth or not to the author's position is beside the point. Not only do I feel like I was duped, but I'm offended that he thinks his readers are so stupid that they wouldn't notice. He should have been honest and written a non-fiction book on the subject. His underhanded method in writing this book has caused his whole premise to lack credibility. On top of everything else,...more
The strong protagonist, Dani, got in over her head with trying to link autism to vaccines. The antagonist, Madson, the head of a huge vaccine company is willing to kill off everyone to avoid the data to get out. Not sure how realistic or factual the book is, but it does show how ridiculously strong the pharmeseudical companies are in this country. It's like a monopoly gone crazy. It was interesting; however, it leaves some things unresolved such as how Congress was going to act with the new data...more
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I probably should not have wasted my time, but I'm on vacation and I got this as a Kindle Daily Deal. A paranoid, conspiracy theorist rant of a novel based on the premise that vaccines cause autism. And the author wants us to believe that corporate CEOs will hire hit men to keep their business booming. Ecch. AT least it was a quick read and I got to move on to more entertaining stuff. Like vertical hill climb runs and copious amounts of sweating resulting in severely sore...more
Great thriller from a writer whose books I've really enjoyed. The story starts out with a bang, similar to his Trojan Horse, but this one keeps up at that pace rather than giving you a breather. It includes some good action scenes, lots of great dialog, a frightening killer and a truly memorable villian. Dani, the heroine, is a spunky young lady I'd like to see in a sequel. This is one to sit back and enjoy. It's a fast-paced, thrilling read.
This is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. I rolled my eyes during this book so much I gave myself a headache. The plot is predictable, the characters are flat and non-consistent, the dialogue is trite, and the resolution is abrupt. It's a thriller, so of course an otherwise normal character becomes a superhero protagonist, but this book didn't make it realistic.
Great book, which is what I've come to expect from this author. This one is stylistically different than his others: faster-paced and with more action and mayhem. Hit men and a young woman filmmaker running from them. His usual facility for building suspense and tension are here, though, and he has some trademark twists at the end. Really enjoyable read.
Excellent thriller that is artfully crafted, almost so well that you don't know you're being pulled along in the ever-increasing tension, suspense and action. This is Lender's best so far, as it's very tightly crafted and economically written. Good action, better characters, his characteristic great dialog and some totally surprising twists. Terrific.
Well I have to admit I wasn't very impressed with this one. The premise was interesting but the writing was not very smooth and the characters were two dimensional. There was also a real chauvinistic feel to several of the descriptions. I'm not very sensitive to that either so I feel it was quite marked for me to be slightly offended by it.
An Interesting, and believable, premise for a thriller - a pharmaceutical company covering up serious side effects from a vaccine they are manufacturing - is completely undermined by amateurish writing, a banal plot and one-dimensional, almost cartoonish, characters. I give it 1 1/2 stars and say - don't waste your time with this one.
Strictly on the merits of the suspense novel: enjoyable. Much as I can read a book about a murderer without agreeing with murder, it has little to do with my opinion on vaccination,just for the record.
A few too much "well, isn't THAT convenient!" moments, but overall, not a bad suspense novel.
A few too much "well, isn't THAT convenient!" moments, but overall, not a bad suspense novel.
I read Lender's recent blog entitled "In the Tradition," referring to thrillers he's enjoyed and which influenced Vaccine Nation. I've seen many of the movies and read some of the books, such as Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor, Enemy of the State, etc. I believe he achieved his goal, creating a gripping, page-turner of an action thriller. The main character, Dani North, is one who the reader becomes quickly attached to, particularly given the arbitrariness of the predicament she finds her...more
Dec 26, 2011
George Tennet
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Perfectly put together. I almost couldn't believe how well the author moved from one scene, one character to another. So fluid and so emotionally involving. This is one for the bookshelf, to hand down to your kids and friends who love engaging and complex reads. I so loved this book.
Being a subject I have had interest in for quite some time, I was hoping for a book with actual information. It was more of a murder mystery, the power of one rich man over the helpless.
The story wasn't bad but the writing is only so-so. I give it only 3 stars.
The story wasn't bad but the writing is only so-so. I give it only 3 stars.
I cringed a few times while reading this...it seemed the author was just trying too hard. It was like he was throwing everything out there that he could think of to make the story interesting. It picked up in the second half and I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.
I thought it would be more about the vaccine controversy when in reality it was more of a Grisham, urban thriller wherein vaccine research is the protagonist. Unimpressed with theme and content but the plot kept me reading through to the end.
This is a must read. Regardless of one's viewpoints on vaccinations this is a good book. I'm more on the side that the whole vaccine debate is a conspiracy created by drug companies. But, yes, my kids have gotten all their vaccinations.
This book was terrible. I did a full review on amazon.com, but it was a complete waste of time. It was just so poorly written. Bad characters that I did not care about at all, bad plot, not believable. As I said in the Amazon.com review, it was very sophomoric.
Enjoyable murder mystery/suspense novel. Fun to read but it ended abruptly an disappointingly. Not for anyone who is paranoid or sensitive about links between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders.
2.5 stars.
Format : Kindle, $1.99
I've loved his other books and this one's no exception. Great story, better characters and lots more action than his other books. It has some duck-hook curveballs that are surprising and clever. Great writing, too.
I've already seen some hoopla about the vaccine debate on the Amazon reviews for this book. So what. It's a great premise for a thriller. This is a thriller, pure and simple. Read whatever else into it you want, but whether you do or not you won't be disappointed. I hope he brings back Dani for another book, or even a series. She's Lois Lane, intrepid reporter (actually, she does documentaries) times two, but without the protection of Superman. She's on her own, running from the killer and the c...more
A fast-paced thriller that tackles an important issue within our society. Many will trash this work because of the issue, but his facts shouldn't be ignored or easily dismissed. Read it, think about.
This time David Lender is not writing about Wall Street but instead ties a murder plot to a pharmacutical industry scandel. Good story with a lot of action. Kindle download
This book is very interesting for those following the issue of the impact of vaccines on people's health and the influence of drug companies. That alone makes this a recommended book, though the "thriller" aspect of the book sometimes dragged and seemed contrived.
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David Lender is the bestselling author of thrillers based on his over 25-year career as a Wall Street investment banker. He draws on an insider’s knowledge from his career in mergers and acquisitions with Merrill Lynch, Rothschild and Bank of America for the international settings, obsessively driven personalities and real-world financial intrigues of his novels. His plots reveal the egos and ruth...more
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