Doomsday Exam

Bureau 13 #2

by Nick Pollotta

Studying to become one of America's defenses against the paranormal, students at the Bureau 13 Academy are thrown into the real world when a mysterious enemy lets loose every monster the Bureau ever had captured. Original.

Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, Humor, Horror

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Nick Pollotta also writes as Nicholas Pollotta, Jack Hopkins, and house names James Axler and Don Pendleton.

Reviews

[Ed Nemo]

What can I say? I love the Bureau 13 books. They were so much fun and it fills me with sadness to know there won't be anymore.

[Jack Forest]

Just as much fun as I remembered. By completely failing to take itself seriously, this book becomes more fun than allowed by some (most) religions.

[Ashley]

I went searching for something new to read, saw a few reviews comparing this to X-Files and Hitchhiker's, and decided to buy it on a whim.

I'm glad I did so! A very fun read with many original ideas that often made me laugh out loud and kept up a quick pace that had me speeding through it eagerly. This is the first Bureau 13 book I've read but I'm already planning to read the others, and I have a feeling I'll come back to this one and read it again in the future several times over.

[Marcus Calvert]

It's amazing the type of tales one can tell in the first-person POV. Pollotta's no joke, when it comes to imaginative writing. I aspire to be anywhere near as good someday. For now, I can just promise you that this books is funny, awesome, intriguing, and unpredictable. Any sci-fi geek should LOVE it.

[Douglas]

The first book i read in the series and i re-read it multiple times. A great read and for the only time in the series we get to see the infamous B13 prison. I only wish there were more than just the few books in this series.

[Steven Vaughan-Nichols]

A fun over the top super-science/fantasy romp as a Bureau 13 team battles a would-be world-conquering villain. If you want anything remotely serious, don't bother with this book, but if you want silly adventure you'll enjoy this.

[Holly]

Borrowed from a friend we both love Pollatta's writing

[Lianne Burwell]

A silly fun series that I have read many times since picking them up. My copies of the Ace editions of the series are actually falling apart at this point, with pages falling out.

[Micah Lehew]

A graduation you don't want to miss.