The First Bird Author: Visit Amazon's Greig Beck Page | Language: English | ISBN:
174334273X | Format: PDF
The First Bird Description
- Paperback: 442 pages
- Publisher: Momentum (November 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 174334273X
- ISBN-13: 978-1743342732
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Just finished this last night and I have to tell you, it's Beck's best work yet! He has improved with every novel he's written and this one's no exception. FIRST BIRD starts out sort of like Dustin Hoffman's OUTBREAK, then becomes a sort of mutated JURASSIC PARK/ANACONDA hybrid, then wraps things up with a slam bang finale that's part THE STAND, part SWAN SONG and part WORLD WAR Z. The peril and panic are cranked all the way up to '11' here... right through to the unsettling climax.
I feel it does help a bit if you've read Greig Beck's previous novels, as they are all sort of loosely inter-connected. This one's actually kind of a stand-alone adventure surprisingly, so while I recommend the earlier novels, they aren't absolutely required reading to fully enjoy this book. Beck has filled this story with another great cast of characters, both good and evil, who feel very real and grounded. This time around, rather than another para-military adrenaline fest featuring Beck's fascinating super-soldier character Alex Hunter, Beck has wisely chosen to shift the leading man duties over to easy-going Matt Kearns, a goofy, nerdish, foolhardy young college professor from Beck's earlier novels, BENEATH THE DARK ICE and BLACK MOUNTAIN. I swear that Beck based Kearns on a couple of guys I grew up with; he comes across as being that real. The other characters are equally fun and interesting, and often not entirely what they seem. Beck loads the book up with plenty of action and just enough science to lay a plausible ground work to make his wonderfully terrifying story seem believable, without bogging the reader down with reams of techno-babble claptrap. After all, this is an rip-roaring adventure story, not a yawn-inducing science lecture.
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