Radiant Angel - Nelson DeMille

Radiant Angel

By Nelson DeMille

  • Release Date: 2015-05-26
  • Genre: Action & Adventure
4 Score: 4 (From 1,282 Ratings)

Description

Prescient and chilling, DeMille's #1 New York Times bestselling novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs.

After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life.

But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia.

When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late? Or will Corey finally be outrun and outsmarted, with America facing the prospect of a crippling attack unlike anything it's ever seen before?

Reviews

  • Rushed

    4
    By Regaleagle59
    Good story that moved quickly. Sad to see Kate & John break up with not much revealed as to why.
  • Radiant Angel

    4
    By Ramona Mike
    A good read. Maybe not his best but still worth reading…
  • Seriously?

    1
    By Bathmatz
    I picked up the Lion’s Game at a garage sale, then fell in love with the JC series. But now there’s...this? After reading, it seems like DeMille was pressured by his publisher to crank out a book ASAP. He delivered to the publisher, sure, but not to the public. A great story if read on its own, but a slap in the face to anyone who has read even one book from the John Corey series. Hopefully he will turn things around in the next installment, but if not at least it was fun while it lasted. Yikes.
  • Fallen Angel

    1
    By Minden Jim
    DeMille has been my favorite author for 25 years. He mailed this one in. I had to force myself to read it to the end. He’s got a lot of making up to do. I hope he can put this dreck behind him and return to the form that stood head and shoulders over fellow writers.
  • Radiant Angel

    3
    By dsphilli
    Good book, hard to put down. I'm no expert, but I found the end a little predictable but it was fun reading how the lead character pulled it off. I also thought character development was shallow in this book compared to those in the past. Within John Corey's universe, quite a bit of time passed since the last novel with only a brief explanation on what happened that weakly segues into the new story. And finally there is less closure at the end concerning Corey's personal life. What is happening with him, his marriage? What's next? Lots of loose ends left hanging. Almost like the author rushed to reach the end without caring about the flow of the story to the reader. I expect another John Corey novel should be coming soon to fill in all of those blanks. Maybe it won't be something so obvious and predictable.
  • What a let down

    2
    By Ryryz71
    I have followed this series and up to this point, the reads were incredible. Radiant Angel- What a let down- Spoiler: Removing Kate from the story was a disaster. She was a counter protagonist that let the readers into see into character John Corey. Sort of the Ying to his Yang. If Nelson reads these, he should rethink the direction.
  • Could have been better!

    3
    By miniredrocket
    John is a great character. This book did not highlight his potential. It was a good story but just not in depth enough to warrant the length of the book. The ending was completely rushed and only two pages dedicated to John and Kate's marriage! Really! I hope John's next story redeems itself.
  • Three Point Five

    3
    By TootzLootzBrighton
    Nelson kinda' had time on his hands, hence this book. It was "ok"...John Corey is funny...action packed but not quite vintage Nelson or Corey.
  • Radiant Angel

    5
    By 4EVR631
    This is a must read! RIP John Corey
  • Good For Insomniacs!

    1
    By bluesman 007
    I've asked my wife to read passages of DeMille's Radiant Angel as I lay in bed at night.....Bingo ...I'm asleep in minutes!

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