Oliver Stone And Chapman

Oliver Stone is about to embark on a mission to Russia in search for the terrorists. Stone and Chapman are on the hot trail of the terrorists, but just can’t seem to catch a break. The terrorist group is eliminating everybody they paid off to work for them, so the FBI can’t get any information off of them. The most important reasons I am rating this book an A- are because it has been slow paced, Stones unique backround, and the story is unique.

My first point to why I rated this book the way that I did is that it is slow paced. The Pinnacle of the story line developed really early in the book with the explosion at the park near the white house. The story continued to be fast paced with all of the killings, and the witnesses giving their
The book starts in Washington D.C. just outside of the White House, and starts out very fast paced. The bomb goes off sending everybody into mad chaos, and there were also gunshots being fired at the same time. One witness says, “The bomb was the loudest noise I have heard in my life”(Baldacci 89). This shows how the book portrays a very clear image of the bombing. The bomb destroyed the park and there was a lot of debris surrounding the bombsite. The book than continues to Quantico, Virginia where Stone and Chapman analyze the footage of from the bombsite. They found out that an overweight jogger fell into the hole where the bomb was planted, after he heard gunshots. They went and talked to the victims’ mom, and she said that he was trying to lose weight to impress a girl. His timing at the park was inopportune, and his mother will have to suffer knowing that her son was taken from the world early. Oliver and Chapman start figuring out more information, which leads them to believe that the terrorists are from Russia. Stone and Chapman are scheduled to head to Russia in search of the terrorists. That is where I am at in the book right now, and hopefully the book ends up