Breathtaking...All forces converge with an apocalyptic bang.The New York TimesSuspensful, nightmarish.Los Angeles Times Frighteningly believable.Chicago Tribune A spellbinder...hair-raising...will keep you rooted to your chair.Hartford CourantCould this really happen? This is the question you continually ask yourself as you tiptoe through this thriller.Chicago Daily News Action-packed, crisp, fast-paced, timely...a first-class plot told in a first-class fashion.Associated Press All too realistic...with a shattering climax.Kirkus s Suspenseful and relentless action...an exciting thriller.Library JournalAbout the AuthorThomas Harris is a #1New York Times bestselling author. His first novel,Black Sunday, was published in 1975, followed bya series of suspense novels featuring cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, including Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising. where can i read full books online for free Black Sunday
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Hannibal's not his only interesting bad guy.By Matthew LalaThomas Harris has a gift for detail. In this case, it shines when he takes an implausible plotline (rigging the super bowl blimp to explode and kill everyone there, including the president) and finds a way to break it down into plausible chunks that the reader can swallow.Before you know it, you're hooked. You're believing something that doesn't sound remotely realistic, if you just read the blurb on the dust jacket.Usually if a thriller that has explosions, guns, and international intrigue, the reader is asked to put his skepticism on the shelf for a while and just enjoy the typewritten equivalent of an action movie. But this isn't some Brad Thor beach reader, the characters are not cardboard boy scouts or comic book villains. That's also one of Thomas Harris' talents and it makes it almost hard to believe this is his first novel. I found the heros only mildly engaging (a Mossad agent with an FBI sidekick) but his antagonists, particularly Michael Lander, really stick with you. You see (through flashbacks) Michael's progression from the boy who doesn't fit in to the rage-filled psychopath who blends in too well. Nobody recognizes the threat in their midst until it's too late.The flavor of this is a little more Tom Clancy than Harris' later cops-vs-serial-killers books, but don't let that discourage you from taking a chance on it. Good writing is good writing and will keep you turning pages anyway.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Hannibel - we NEED you!By The Redneck JacoAfter reading and re-reading of Harris' stories' about Hannibal the Cannibal (a man we desperately need in America right now!), I wantd to look elsewhere. "Black Sunday" is one of those, like, "I KNOW what's gonna happen but I want to read about it too." So I did.The movie, of course, is nowhere ner as goo as the book...2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good readBy smittyI've read all of Thomas Harris books. I read this one last. I wished I would have read it years ago. This is prior to his Hannibal Lecter books.