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Testament
Reporter Reuben Bourne has broken a promise - to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive - as he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as the fanatical humans who pur...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Warner Books
(first published 1975)
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This began as a great read and the plot was very interesting yet the ending quit telling the story and eventually became an internalization of the lead character. Leaving all aspects of the great book it began as, to become a horrid finish.
I give this book four stars, it started strong, it was written well, it had a lot of feeling associated with it, but the ending was really not that good. The story had pieces left out, and they were things that I thought needed to be told.
We know that Bourne wrote an article about a white supremacy group ran by Kess, and they ended up trying to kill him and the family, but we never really find out much surrounding the conflict. Bourne is on the run from them, because they killed his s...more
We know that Bourne wrote an article about a white supremacy group ran by Kess, and they ended up trying to kill him and the family, but we never really find out much surrounding the conflict. Bourne is on the run from them, because they killed his s...more
I didn't realise till halfway through the book - it's a fast read, and you could reach halfway in an evening - that I'd read it before back in high school a couple of decades back. I reached a scene (a minor character's anecdote) that had struck me as bizarre then and was even weirder this time around. And not weird in a good way. It still didn't make much dramatic sense, even though it was the most
'disturbing' (numerous readers' critiques on Amazon describe the novel thus) scene in the bo...more
'disturbing' (numerous readers' critiques on Amazon describe the novel thus) scene in the bo...more
This is the best thriller I ever read. It's also one of the best non-supernatural horror novel I've ever read. Girl Next door by Jack Ketchum is up there too.
Nail-biter from the creator of Rambo.
Nail-biter from the creator of Rambo.
I don't remember much about this book, other than I liked it enough to keep it, but I think that this one was better written than some... It is good though.
Good enough
I abandoned this book about 270 pages into it. It starts off incredibly, a great, gritty, fast moving thriller. At about 260 pages in, I stopped caring about the characters and got bored with it. Morrell is a good writer, but this one loses steam rather quickly.
I would have given this one 4 stars except the ending sucked. The premise was great and the story was intense. I'm glad I read this now, as a father, rather than when I was younger as the story had more impact.
This is another favorite among Morrell's books.
real-life scary!
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David Morrell is a Canadian novelist from Kitchener, Ontario, who has been living in the United States for a number of years. He is best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become a successful film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. More recently, he has been writing the Captain America comic books limited-series The Chosen.
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