Sidney Sheldon
Writer
Producer
Director
Actor
February 11, 1917 – January 30,
2007
Recommended reading:
This is my favorite of all Sidney Sheldon’s books. Very different from his other glossy, more mainstream stories, this one surprised me; an entertaining and suspenseful science-fiction thriller. Fans of the movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Fugitive (1993), and the TV show The X-Files will see similar plot elements in The Doomsday Conspiracy.
– Jack Kost.
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The Doomsday Conspiracy
By Sidney Sheldon.
Paperback.
Published 1991.
Published by Warner Books.
ISBN 13: 9780006472087
ISBN 10: 0006472087
ASIN: 0006472087
Sample:
Prologue:
Uetendorf, Switzerland
Sunday, October 14, 1500 Hours
The witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The scene that lay before them was grotesque, a primeval nightmare dredged up from some deep, dark depths of primitive man’s collective consciousness. Each witness had a different reaction. One fainted. A second one vomited. A woman was shaking uncontrollably. Another one thought: I’m going to have a heart attack! The elderly priest clutched his beads and crossed himself. Help me, Father. Help us all. Protect us against this evil incarnate. We have finally seen the face of Satan. It is the end of the world. Judgment Day has come.
Armageddon is here. … Armageddon … Armageddon …
Description from cover jacket:
‘The witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The scene that lay before them was grotesque, a primeval nightmare…’
So begins The Doomsday Conspiracy, Sidney Sheldon’s eleventh novel and one that has been called his most ingenious and surprising. Navy Commander Robert Bellamy is assigned to investigate the crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps. All witnesses to the accident must be found and questioned. However, for Bellamy it is the beginning of a journey of terror into the incomprehensible.
From Washington to London, Zurich, Rome, and Paris the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy’s past — why the woman he loves most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn an incredible secret shielded by an unknown lethal force.
Master of the unexpected. Master of the game. Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon has created The Doomsday Conspiracy, a tightly plotted, breathlessly paced thriller — and compelling love story — that confirms his best-selling status.
Credits:
Books:
A Stranger in the Mirror
(1976); After the Darkness (2010); Angel of the Dark (2012); Are You Afraid of
the Dark? (2004); Bloodline (1977); Chasing Tomorrow (2014); If Tomorrow Comes (1985);
Master of the Game (1982); Memories of Midnight (1990); Mistress of the Game (1988);
Morning, Noon & Night (1995); Nothing Lasts Forever (1994); Rage of Angels (1980);
Reckless (2015); Roman Candle (1960); Tell Me Your Dreams (1998); The
Adventures of Drippy (1996); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1961); The Best
Laid Plans (1997); The Doomsday Conspiracy (1991); The Naked Face (1970); The
Other Side of Me (2005); The Other Side of Midnight (1973); The Phoenix (2019);
The Sands of Time (1988); The Secret Keepers (2024); The Silent Widow (2019); The
Sky is Falling (2000); The Stars Shine Down (1992); The Tides of Memory (2013);
Windmills of the Gods (1987).
Movies and television:
A Stranger in the Mirror
(1993); All in a Night's Work (1961); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Anything Goes
(1956); Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962); Bloodline (1979); Borrowed Hero (1941); Buster
and Billie (1974); Colgate Theatre (1958); Dangerous Lady (1941); Dream Wife
(1953); Easter Parade (1948); Ek Hasina Thi (2004); Fly-By-Night (1942); Gambling
Daughters (1941); Hart to Hart (1979–1984); Hart to Hart Returns (1993); Hart
to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season (1996); Hart
to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994); Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
(1994); Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996); Hart to Hart: Two Harts in
3/4 Time (1995); Howie (1962); I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970); I Dream of
Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later (1985); I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991); If
Tomorrow Comes (1986); Jeannie Aur Juju (2012–2014); Just This Once (1952); Master
Dearest, from the Diaries of Jeannie (2020–2021); Master of the Game (1984); Mayonaka
wa betsu no kao (2002); Memories of Midnight (1991); Mr. District Attorney in
the Carter Case (1941); Nancy (1970–1971); Nancy Goes to Rio (1950); No
Questions Asked (1951); Nothing Lasts Forever (1995); Pardners (1956); Rage of
Angels (1983); Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986); Remains to Be Seen
(1953); Rich, Young and Pretty (1951); Shadow on the Land (1968); Sheriff's
Star (1991); She's in the Army (1942); South of Panama (1941); Stage 7 (1955); The
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); The Barkleys of Broadway (1949); The Birds
and the Bees (1956); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Comedy Spot (1960); The
Naked Face (1984); The Other Side of Midnight (1977); The Patty Duke Show
(1963–1966); The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights (1999); The
Sands of Time (1992); The Twilight Zone (1986); Three Guys Named Mike (1951); Windmills
of the Gods (1988); You're Never Too Young (1955).
