But mainly, if you want to write a book that turns out to be science fiction or fantasy or otherworldly, label it as such. Those three people could have occupied a paragraph apiece, just to explain their role and then forgotten. He had no knowledge of anything aside from being the delivery person. He kills the mail carrier who delivered the letter. Because? He has/had no knowledge of the value/worth/importance of the contents and since they were 60 years old, had no reason to think twice about them.
The construction worker finds the batch of letters, turns them over to his supervisor and the supervisor is killed. He's killing people who have no need to be killed. There are also too many unnecessary killings by the 'assassin' Fisher. I'm surprised his editors didn't catch it and send it back for a re-write. With over 300 in my library, I can easily spot the one with storyline issues. The fact Scott Brick was the narrator was my main decision maker when choosing this book. Anything outside that realm is neither their concern nor holds any interest. From the very beginning, finding an NTSB investigator who goes off on some strange search with a person he barely knows, frankly, isn't going to happen. "The difference is, fiction has to make sense." This doesn't.
Stephen King once remarked, when asked if writing fiction is harder than non-fiction. Sent by someone who should have already been long-dead.Ī single letter Joe Rickards is about to discover, with a secret that will change the entire world. Beginning with how a mysterious letter could turn up after being lost in the system for 60 years. Leaving his only hope at understanding it in the hands of the victim's sole remaining relative. Why would a person receive an age-old letter and suddenly disappear into the thick of night.paying to be flown out of a closed airport in the worst possible weather conditions by a pilot who hadn't had his hand on the stick in years? With the only surviving relative insisting her grandfather would never have climbed into a small airplane in the first place, even in perfect weather.Ī bizarre string of events culminating in a horrible accident unlike anything Rickards has experienced. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. He's an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow. One small handwritten letter, sent from a dark, remote corner of the planet and lost in the system for 60 years, is about to change the entire human race.
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