Into the Inferno edition by Earl Emerson Literature Fiction eBooks
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In the freezing heart of the Pacific Northwest winter, a group of firefighters from North Bend Fire and Rescue responds to a freeway accident. Two trucks have collided on the icy pavement. One of the trucks was transporting livestock; the other carried within its cargo an unmarked, innocuous-looking container. Now the highway is chaos with irate drivers, volunteer fire crews, and hundreds of escaped chickens.
The trucks are cleared, the highway reopens, and another day ends. But the repercussions of the crash are enormous. For six months later, the firefighters who were at the scene begin to mysteriously succumb to unexplained accidents and ailments. Jim Swope wakes up with the first, strange symptom—a symptom of an unknown disease that renders its victims brain-dead within a week. Now he has only seven days to determine how he and his fellow firefighters have been poisoned—and to discover an antidote . . . if one exists. If he doesn’t, these will be the last seven days of his life.
In a red-hot pursuit to the end, Earl Emerson puts real-life heroes up against seemingly insurmountable odds. Intense in the third degree, Into the Inferno is a brilliant melding of fact and thriller. Prepare yourself for the sweltering heat of wickedly good suspense.
Into the Inferno edition by Earl Emerson Literature Fiction eBooks
I have read all of Emerson’s books several times, and This is the third time I’ve read this book. It gets better each time. Emerson writes his stories so it is easy for the reader to imagine they are the main character, living out the story. Great job!!!Product details
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Into the Inferno edition by Earl Emerson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
Amazing how the man can write such a dark tale about a man facing an imminent, ugly, and irrevocable end (brain death), and still find so many ways to make me laugh. Swope, our "hero" if he can be called that, is one of those guys who in real life makes my eyes cross, he's so inept and cowardly in his personal relationships, and so sure that the trip wire in those relationships could never have been put there by him. Yet he's drawn so finely by Emerson that Swope's flaws are part of the attraction -- you just can't help liking the idiot! He's flesh and blood and so very human.
The plot -- you can read about that in the professional reviews. Suffice it to say, this is one fabulous page-turner. Swope is running against the clock, and the short chapters -- every single one contributing to moving the plot forward; no wasted words here! -- seem to add to the quick pacing.
As for Emerson's prose, it's always been very, very good, but in this book I think he has taken his work to a new level. In his hands Crude American Vernacular becomes Sheer Poetry, and I'd love to provide examples but I doubt if will print those words. Just... the letters MF now have a whole different connotation than the common street profanity I've always heard!
This is a beautiful book, filled with both honesty and humor (I mean laugh-out-loud funny). More than a simple thriller, we get the inside scoop on a man's self-examination when facing the total devastation of his life. How Swope comes to grips with his own sins, and the sins of others, is as fascinating as the fires and aid calls that Emerson describes to perfection. And yeah, I might even have got a bit wet around the eyes at the end.
And I want Mel Gibson to play Swope in the movie...
And one last note The best, I mean THE VERY BEST chapter titles yet!
I really enjoyed this fast-moving firefighter book with a twist that may not be as rare as we would like to think. I'd never given too much thought to that fact that when a firefighter pulls open the door to a burning house, car or barn they have no way of knowing they aren’t walking into a hell-hole of a some psycho’s chemistry lab gone awry. In this novel, we find out what happens when this is a chemical so deadly and secret that it gets you killed to even know about it or try to investigate the deaths it causes? It seems like just another ordinary winter pileup in the Pacific Northwest at the beginning. It's all easily sorted out by the responding professional firefighters. Bu then, in the ensuing weeks and months, these same firefighters begin succumbing to a ten-day illness. Invariably, they descend into an irreversible vegetative state. Jim Swope picks up on the symptoms of his fellow firefighters as, one-by-one, they go downhill and either die by suicide or are interned into institutions. When Swope comes down with the same symptoms, he doesn’t go down easily. As the symptoms creep across his body, time is running short. With Doctor Stepanie Riggs, he finds a lead in the case sending him on a race for life. He knows that in ten days he will be just one more mental case, or dead. As he closes in, the holders of the secret attempt to frame and then eliminate him and his family in accidents which will be ascribed to his mental incompetence. Author Earl Emerson has done a superb job of showing us the hazards of the firefighter’s job. He has a great scenario for a story which is not far from reality. His descriptions of how easy it is for us to gloss over symptoms, or ascribe deaths to normal causes or suicide when no discernable symptoms of illness exist is scary! How easy it is for the big money, the big corporation, the big government, to cover up the big secret is also an eye-opener. Enjoy reading this. It’s a quickie, but very thoughtful and worth-while reading!
I greatly enjoyed this book as I do all of Emerson’s. Not great literature but a fun, fast paced ride. Something is killing the firefighters of North Bend but what is it? Our protagonist searches for the answers before his own time runs out. Read and enjoy!
liked his other books better
I read and enjoyed all his Thomas Black and Mac Fontana novels. The Inferno and The Smoke Room were very poorly written. The characters and situations were no where near real. The plots were absent. The "stories" were disjointed. Such a shame after many great novels.
Emerson never disappoints. The master of making the implausible seem likely.
I am always impressed by Emerson's talent, and I wonder after each new book when he finds the time to write--given his full-time job as a firefighter. But it's his first-hand experience as a firefighter that informs the best of his work and Into the Inferno is no exception. With fully drawn, exceptionally well-conceived characters, Emerson takes us along on a death trip with deeply conflicted womanizer Jim Swope. While Swope's view of himself is not a pleasant one, the reader cannot help but like this fellow because he's just so utterly likeable--particularly in his interaction with his two daughters. Given that I picked out the villain of the piece right away, it's a testament to Emerson's narrative gift that I stuck with the story, waiting for Swope's "aha!" moment. And it's delivered very well. There's so much action that there's scarcely breathing room--either for the characters or for the reader. There are also some very profound observations on life and what is, and isn't, valuable. Yet these observations are delivered within the context of the character and ring very true. For sheer entertainment value, Emerson's hard to beat.
Highly recommended.
I have read all of Emerson’s books several times, and This is the third time I’ve read this book. It gets better each time. Emerson writes his stories so it is easy for the reader to imagine they are the main character, living out the story. Great job!!!
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