Here i am thinking i can't get anymore surprise from Sydney...then this book hit's me with a BAM!Dont get me wrong, i know Syd is full of twists and turn so i know, before even oppening this book that it is going to be a WOW. BUt i neve expect it to blow my mind!I was reading the first few chapters and i keep turning the cover, making sure it was Sydney's work because this one was totally different! It has ALIENS! I mean can you believe it! I have read about yakuza'a, mobbs, lawyer, but never did i expect from Sydney ALIENS and UFOS!Sydney has an amazing writing! I dont even know why im saying this, knowing im sure EVERYONE already knows that. It's like saying the heart is red or the sky is blue. It is THAT obvious.I have read pretty much all of he's book and never have i been disappointed! (i mean, i did get disappointed...once but blame it on the ebook!) Chapter one, yup just on chapter one, i felt the depth of the characters pain. I felt he's love and felt sorry for him, just by reading a 3-page chapter I already felt connected. I understood he yearned for he's ex-wife..Just by a single phone-communication that lasted for a what? a minute??THAT IS HOW GOOD SYDNEY IS!!! HE IS LIKE THE BEST WRITER THAT HAS EVER DAMN LIVED!!!!!!!!Damn all those people who gave this book 3-below star. That's just STUPID (SORRY! i dont like it if people hates my favorite writer!)Anyway. I have never, and I mean ever LIKED books that which revolves around male POV before, but becuase of this book, i changed my mind. Actually i started hating mystery books, but reading this has turned me around.Uh-OH! MAJOR VENTING COMING UP!My only complaint, being a hopeless romantic that i am is how the Alien woman didn't end up with the Robert! Why can't Sydney be more romantic! Why didn't he broke Robert's ex-wife's heart like she broke he's! I wanted to make he's ex-wife suffer and I MEAN SUFFER REAL REAL BAD! she sounds like a nice gal but still she broke his heart! That evil evil SWINE!!! UGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I hated it when they got up together!!!!! She does not deserve Robert! I want her to realize she lover Robert, leave her present husband (SHE BROKE UP WITH ROBERT BECAUSE OF FREAKING HIM!!!!!!), tries to go back with Robert but he already met that beutiful alien lady and during their escapes and adventures trying not to get killed, they fell in love, and so Robert tells her 'goodbye, but im in love with her' and then she's like 'I shoudn't have ever left you go' and then theirs me 'YOUR FAULT B*TCH!'I swear i never use the B word but gosh that woman pushed my buttons! enough with that... anyway. READ THE FREAKING BOOK!
Sidney Sheldon often said he was a storyteller and The Doomsday Conspiracy proves him to be a good one.Commander Robert Bellamy answers the phone in the middle of the night and is ordered to report to General Hilliard at National Security Agency Headquarters at Fort Meade, at 0600 hours.Bellamy’s first thought as he hung up the phone was what could NSA want with him?He was assigned to ONI The Office of Naval Intelligence.After hurrying through his morning routine Robert Bellamy got into his car and drove to NSA Headquarters. Showing his identification at every stop, he negotiated a labyrinth of guards and gates before arriving at the office of General Mark Hilliard, Deputy Director of the NSA. Amenities were short and terse. Orders were already in place for Commander Bellamy to be transferred on temporary assignment from Naval Intelligence to NSA.The problem was an international incident that seemed to be spinning out of control. A NATO weather balloon had crashed in the Swiss Alps carrying sensitive and secrete military equipment. The incident had to be kept under wraps. There were witnesses to the accident and they all had to be warned not to discuss what they saw. Commander Bellamy was to track them down and identify the witnesses but not to engage them in conversation. Others would do the debriefing.Bellamy was given an almost impossible task -- track down an unknown number of unknown witnesses from unknown countries. The possibility of a successful investigation was not good.And to complicate matters further Bellamy was not to use any of his old contacts or informants. That part of the order was strange but not unprecedented.He arrived in Switzerland with only one hint of a clue. Back at his NAS briefing he was told that the witnesses had been aboard a bus and were part of a tour group.Bellamy located the bus tour company involved and the driver. For a large sum of money the driver accompanied Bellamy to the crash site. They found a deflated weather balloon, but the bus driver said that wasn’t what they saw the day before. The driver said it was some kind of a space ship or flying saucer.Bellamy immediately thought of Roswell, New Mexico and UFO’s. What was the NSA hiding?Sheldon proceeds to lead us on a page turning romp through the Swiss Alps and Europe with Bellamy chasing and identifying witnesses. He eventually realizes that he has become a target and that the UFO theory was only part of a diabolical conspiracy. Tom Barnes author of:“The Goring Collection”“Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone”“The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle.”
What do You think about The Doomsday Conspiracy (1991)?
When I was reading the critical parts of this book, I was like, "Oh please no....don't suggest that.....no...no....don't end it with aliens"...and then he did exactly that! Why does it always end up with aliens? Aliens are so...very, very boring. I think bringing up aliens in any story is like a last resort of writers, like 'when in doubt, put aliens there'. I bought this book without realizing it was sci-fi. That was foolish on my part. The reason I bought this was because of the author's fame
—Sana'a Abdul latheef
The plot is indeed captivating. But Mr. Sheldon didn't do his homework on the USSR. The book swarms with American stereotypes about the Soviets. Bad Russian sweets, he says - bullshit, you should have tasted some before making statements like that. I don't want to list all those errors and provocative paragraphs in The Doomsday Conspiracy, yet the book had been written long after the end of the Cold War. Well, it's a work of fiction rather than a documentary, but still it looks like a cheap propaganda piece.
—Oleksiy Kononov
Well the book was just another Sidney Sheldon's work. Like many other Sheldon's books it stated with solving a case/puzzle and at the end of the 1st half there was a huge twist. Then the book was followed by one twist after other. At the end of the book all the mystery were solved in very few pages.This is the one thing i don't like about Sheldon's book. In the end it feels like "Is that all! Nothing else is to be told?" I wish there were few more questions answered. The end was not as satisfying as the rest of the book.But overall the book was simple and light read.
—Priya
