| Author: | William Martin | ISBN: | 9781475606775 |
| Publisher: | William Martin | Publication: | February 22, 1984 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | William Martin |
| ISBN: | 9781475606775 |
| Publisher: | William Martin |
| Publication: | February 22, 1984 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
"From sea to shining sea, America is wired for a nightmare!" NERVE ENDINGS, William Martin's prophetic New York Times bestseller, returns to thrill readers again with supense, excitement, and blockbuster action. Off the coast of Maine, a fishing boat explodes. On the shores of the Pacific, a dangerous media colossus is waiting to be born. And caught between, the American people, living their lives, enduring their struggles, oblivious to the forces gathering around them. A Hollywood producer named Roger Darrow dies on that fishing boat. With him die a lot of dark secrets. But in death, he gives a stranger a second chance at life. James Whiting, a Boston advertising man on the transplant list, comes up a match and receives one of Darrow's kidneys. As his health improves, he decides to go to Los Angeles to thank Darrow's family. There he finds Darrow's widow, Jeanne, grief-stricken and bewildered, and he tries to help. Meanwhile, dark, dangerous forces are gathering, invading the privacy of ordinary Americans, plotting to determine the direction of democracy itself, all through the cables that carry entertainment and information into every home, like the electronic nerve endings of the nation. Is this why Roger Darrow was killed? Whiting and Jeanne set out to retrace his last journey and discover the truth. What follows is a suspense thriller like no other, a mad chase across wintertime America, from the heart of Hollywood to the rockbound coast of Maine. It's also a powerful contemplation on the character of the nation itself, and of ordinary Americans confronting the technological future that has come to pass since NERVE ENDINGS made its debut.
About the Author:
WILLIAM MARTIN is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, an award-winning PBS documentary and a cult-classic horror movie, too. Since his sensational start with BACK BAY in 1980, he has been telling the American story in an explosively entertaining fashion. Some of his novels have been straight historicals, like CITIZEN WASHINGTON. Some wind history and mystery together, like the Peter Fallon series, including THE LINCOLN LETTER and The LOST CONSTITUTION. And he has written one stand-alone contemporary thriller, the book you are about to read. Critics have called him a novelist “whose smoothness matches his ambition,” (Publisher’s Weekly) writing fiction “so complex in its understanding of humanity as to seem actually true” (USA Today). He has earned the admiration of historians and other novelists, like Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has proclaimed herself “a huge William Martin fan,” and New York Times bestseller Michael Palmer, who called Martin, “quite simply the best writer of historical suspense in the business today.” And honors have come his way… the prestigious New England Book Award (2005), given by the New England Independent Booksellers Association to "an author whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region," and the USS Constitution Museum’s Samuel Eliot Morison Award (2015), which put Martin in the august company of recipients like Patrick O’Brian and David McCullough. He graduated from Harvard and received his MFA from the University of Southern California. He has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife. He has just completed his sixth Peter Fallon novel, BOUND FOR GOLD, to be published in 2018.
"A thriller-reader's joy… Smart, scary, thought provoking, almost impossible to put down." --Stephen King
"All the right ingredients… fast-paced, exciting, terrific." -- Los Angeles Times
"A coast-to-coast Ludlum-style thriller… Superlative suspense." -- Cincinnatti Enquirer
"A fast-paced thriller… swift, cinematic, electrifying." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Teeming with surprises… the climax is hair-raising." -- Boston Globe
"From sea to shining sea, America is wired for a nightmare!" NERVE ENDINGS, William Martin's prophetic New York Times bestseller, returns to thrill readers again with supense, excitement, and blockbuster action. Off the coast of Maine, a fishing boat explodes. On the shores of the Pacific, a dangerous media colossus is waiting to be born. And caught between, the American people, living their lives, enduring their struggles, oblivious to the forces gathering around them. A Hollywood producer named Roger Darrow dies on that fishing boat. With him die a lot of dark secrets. But in death, he gives a stranger a second chance at life. James Whiting, a Boston advertising man on the transplant list, comes up a match and receives one of Darrow's kidneys. As his health improves, he decides to go to Los Angeles to thank Darrow's family. There he finds Darrow's widow, Jeanne, grief-stricken and bewildered, and he tries to help. Meanwhile, dark, dangerous forces are gathering, invading the privacy of ordinary Americans, plotting to determine the direction of democracy itself, all through the cables that carry entertainment and information into every home, like the electronic nerve endings of the nation. Is this why Roger Darrow was killed? Whiting and Jeanne set out to retrace his last journey and discover the truth. What follows is a suspense thriller like no other, a mad chase across wintertime America, from the heart of Hollywood to the rockbound coast of Maine. It's also a powerful contemplation on the character of the nation itself, and of ordinary Americans confronting the technological future that has come to pass since NERVE ENDINGS made its debut.
About the Author:
WILLIAM MARTIN is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, an award-winning PBS documentary and a cult-classic horror movie, too. Since his sensational start with BACK BAY in 1980, he has been telling the American story in an explosively entertaining fashion. Some of his novels have been straight historicals, like CITIZEN WASHINGTON. Some wind history and mystery together, like the Peter Fallon series, including THE LINCOLN LETTER and The LOST CONSTITUTION. And he has written one stand-alone contemporary thriller, the book you are about to read. Critics have called him a novelist “whose smoothness matches his ambition,” (Publisher’s Weekly) writing fiction “so complex in its understanding of humanity as to seem actually true” (USA Today). He has earned the admiration of historians and other novelists, like Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has proclaimed herself “a huge William Martin fan,” and New York Times bestseller Michael Palmer, who called Martin, “quite simply the best writer of historical suspense in the business today.” And honors have come his way… the prestigious New England Book Award (2005), given by the New England Independent Booksellers Association to "an author whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region," and the USS Constitution Museum’s Samuel Eliot Morison Award (2015), which put Martin in the august company of recipients like Patrick O’Brian and David McCullough. He graduated from Harvard and received his MFA from the University of Southern California. He has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife. He has just completed his sixth Peter Fallon novel, BOUND FOR GOLD, to be published in 2018.
"A thriller-reader's joy… Smart, scary, thought provoking, almost impossible to put down." --Stephen King
"All the right ingredients… fast-paced, exciting, terrific." -- Los Angeles Times
"A coast-to-coast Ludlum-style thriller… Superlative suspense." -- Cincinnatti Enquirer
"A fast-paced thriller… swift, cinematic, electrifying." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Teeming with surprises… the climax is hair-raising." -- Boston Globe
