Book Review: WHITE FIRE by Brian Keene

WHITE FIRE by Brian Keene  (Deadite Press, October 2018) Paperback, 110 pages.  ISBN #  162105277 / 9781621052777.

 

Summary from the Goodreads website . . . . .

 

In this new expanded, revised edition of WHITE FIRE, a devastating new sickness sweeps the land, but is it biological or supernatural in nature? One person races against time to discover the truth, facing off against a foe who may not be human. 

 

Previously out of print and never before available as a stand-alone, this new edition of WHITE FIRE has been revised and expanded, and is considered the Author’s Preferred Version.

 

 

My review on the Goodreads website . . . . .

 

     Crisp and taut — this short novel really moves forward rapidly from the beginning chapter. 

 

     It’s a frightening tale of what-if that seems very real and pertinent: what if a freak tornado rampaged through a small Illinois town just when a bio-weapon was being secretly transported to a new location, and the ensuing accident unleashes the odorless invisible virus upon the populace? 

 

     What would happen, how would emergency services respond, and could the virus ever be contained?

 

      Keene answers all those questions and more and manages to build enough information about the central characters to make us care. Everything seems very real in this book, until Keene introduces an eerie supernatural element that takes it to another level of fear.