On a Long Island of beach at dusk, Bud Mitchell and Jill Winslow conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera, set to record each steamy moment. Suddenly, a terrible explosion lights up the sky. Grabbing the camera, the couple flee as approaching police cars speed towards the scene.
Five years later, the crash of Flight 800 has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But for John Corey and Kate Mayfield, both members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force, the case is not closed. Suspecting a cover-up at the highest levels and disobeying orders, they set out to find the one piece of evidence that will prove the truth about what really happened to Flight 800 . . .
A taut, edge-of-seat-thriller, 'Night Fall' is Nelson DeMille at his page-turning best. Merging catastrophe with conspiracy theory, lacing it with contemporary terrorist themes, DeMille also steals a march on his rivals - this fast-paced fiction is based on fact . . .