Chan takes an immediate liking for the traumatized sisters, particularly the teenaged Tennant and vows to help them and get to the bottom of the mystery.ĭespite the Military’s best efforts to keep it contained within the remote confines of Mt. Harbin, the two Doctors start taking the initiative to get to the bottom of things as both their ‘Handlers’ – a Lieutenant Colonel Fraser and before him, a Department of Defense appointee – Holt – held back a lot of pertinent information from the group on account of the much-abused notion of ‘Need to know’.

Martha Chan – a Medical Doctor and trauma specialist. But before they can do much, similar incidents affect other neighboring cities and towns as well, leaving the US Government completely flabbergasted.Īmongst the Specialists roped in by the US government to make sense out of this madness, is Dr. The military is called in to investigate this and they in turn rope in various specialist professionals to help them understand and cope with what is happening. Disaster strikes in the form of an unknown phenomenon that destroys everything around them and leaving them as the only survivors. Two sisters, Tennant (16) and Sophie (8) are growing up in a reclusive cabal of survivalists – in the surrounding forests of Mt. In keeping with all James Patterson novels, this is also lightning fast and carries you along like the flow of a breakaway waterfall! As seems his wont in 2021, James Patterson veers into the realm of the supernatural and into fantasy and even Sci-Fi horror as some may term it. In this collaboration between James Patterson and J D Barker, it is evident that most of the heavy lifting – in terms of the writing – is done by the junior member of the duo and it probably falls on the senior partner to give the work his finishing touches.

My Rating – 3.5 out of 5 Plot Summary – The Noise Read the Goodreads Review of The Noise here.Book Review – The Noise by James Patterson & J D Barker – Entertaining Thriller.

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