Eleven people on a plane that will be in the air for exactly 18 minutes before it crashes into the black Atlantic. Noah Hawley really knows how to keep a reader turning the pages, but there’s more to the novel than suspense. On one hand, “Before the Fall” is a complex, compulsively readable thrill ride of a novel. On the other, it is an exploration of the human condition, a meditation on the vagaries of human nature, the dark side of celebrity, the nature of art, the power of hope and the danger of an unchecked media. The combination is a potent, gritty thriller that exposes the high cost of news as entertainment and the randomness of fate.
-New York Times
This book grabbed me as a social commentary on the media nowadays. Turning the pages I got a whiff of Fox News, Rupert
Murdoch, and Larry King in his trademark suspenders. A
clever book from a guy known for writing screen plays.
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