The Noise
Terror has a new sound
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4.1 • 31 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the suspense' Booklist
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Two sisters have always stood together. Now, they're the only ones left.
In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie.
The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams.
From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse . . .
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Praise for James Patterson
'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton
'Nobody does it better' Jeffery Deaver
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell
'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting' Mark Lawson, Guardian
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Patterson and Barker follow 2020's The Coast-to-Coast Murders with a tired variation on a familiar theme—a baffling phenomenon devastates a community, triggering a massive government response to contain the truth and limit the loss of life. Sisters Tennant and Sophie Riggin live with their parents in a survivalist community near Oregon's Mount Hood. When a sudden, horribly painful noise disrupts the girls while they are hunting rabbits, their parents lock them in a cellar for protection. Then eight-year-old Sophie starts bleeding, curses her 16-year-old sibling, and turns violent. Meanwhile, psychologist Martha Chan is dragooned by the military to join a team of experts including a biologist, a climatologist, and an astrophysicist to determine what flattened part of the nearby forest and crushed all living things in that area. What they find leads to the direct involvement of the American president, as well as a cardinal who's "the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in the United States." The implausible plot suffers from a lack of characterization and suspense. Other authors have done better with similar material.
Customer Reviews
Great read
Loved this book, interesting and freaky at the same time