BLACK SUNDAY

This publication of Thomas Harris’s 1975 novel of a psychotic genius’s plot to kill everyone at the Super Bowl, including the president, is welcome and timely. World events make BLACK SUNDAY’s now-classic terrorist scenario more credible, and Frank Muller’s high-intensity performance makes it even more compelling as an audiobook. The book’s central character, Michael Lander, is the first, but least well realized, of Harris’s line of interesting “criminal minds.” The most deeply drawn of these may be Francis Dolarhyde of RED DRAGON; the most fascinating, of course, is Hannibal Lechter. Muller grabs and holds the reader by focusing his uniquely arresting voice on each word and phrase of this complex adventure. K.C. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 01]