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The Noise

by James Patterson and J.D. Barker

Library Journal Taking his first trip to the Pacific Northwest, Patterson introduces readers to 16-year-old Tennant, who is checking rabbit traps with little sister Sophie when they hear a mysterious vibration rising to a shriek in the woods. Their father shoves them into the storm cellar, and when the two girls emerge, 1,000 people are dead. With a 460,000-copy first printing.

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Book list The ubiquitous Patterson reteams with Barker, the author of the 4MK trilogy, for this SF/horror/thriller blend. In Oregon, at a site near Mount Hood, two sisters, one 16 and one 8, narrowly survive a catastrophic event that levels their village and, apparently, kills the rest of its people. Soon, government agents swoop down on the area, along with a team of civilian experts. Their mission: find out what happened and determine how to prevent it from happening again. This is a really entertaining thriller; the authors pull the reader in with a series of intriguing questions, and, as they answer one of them, they pose new ones. The pacing is very good, too: like Michael Crichton (who might have written something very like this), Patterson and Barker keep ratcheting up the suspense and the sense of impending doom, until, by the end, we wish we could read faster just so we can find out what happens next.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Virtually any book with Patterson’s name on the cover is a best-seller. More than many of them, this one deserves to be.

From Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission.

Book list The ubiquitous Patterson reteams with Barker, the author of the 4MK trilogy, for this SF/horror/thriller blend. In Oregon, at a site near Mount Hood, two sisters, one 16 and one 8, narrowly survive a catastrophic event that levels their village and, apparently, kills the rest of its people. Soon, government agents swoop down on the area, along with a team of civilian experts. Their mission: find out what happened and determine how to prevent it from happening again. This is a really entertaining thriller; the authors pull the reader in with a series of intriguing questions, and, as they answer one of them, they pose new ones. The pacing is very good, too: like Michael Crichton (who might have written something very like this), Patterson and Barker keep ratcheting up the suspense and the sense of impending doom, until, by the end, we wish we could read faster just so we can find out what happens next.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Virtually any book with Patterson’s name on the cover is a best-seller. More than many of them, this one deserves to be.

From Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission.

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