Night Fall

A couple filming their own affair on a beach witnesses an explosion in the sky — TWA Flight 800 — and then disappears with the tape. Five years later, Anti-Terrorism Task Force agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield are convinced that the official mechanical failure ruling is wrong, and that the tape documenting the actual cause is somewhere out there, held by two people who have been very carefully staying invisible. Nelson DeMille's thriller works the gap between official versions of events and the evidence that could contradict them.

Scott Brick narrates with the authority and momentum that the genre demands — the conspiracy structure, the romance, and the procedural investigation all benefit from a narrator who treats the premise as completely credible. At just under 15 hours, Night Fall is one of DeMille's most structurally satisfying novels, built around a mystery whose answer arrives with appropriate force.