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.
