The Day After Tomorrow, first published in 1994, is by far the best of the three books written by former screenwriter, Alan Folsom. It is an
exciting page-turner with all the elements of a successful
thriller – a likable protagonist, a seasoned LA detective, an organization with a diabolical secret and tentacles that reach far and wide and treachery at every step. All of this is set against the exciting international backdrop of Paris, London, Berlin, New York, LA and Zurich.The hero, Paul Osborne, is a troubled man with a haunted past. While in a Paris café, he sees the man who killed his father in 1967. This chance sighting sets up Osborne as first the pursuer, and then the pursued, as he gradually uncovers a sinister
plot.At the same time, the police in various European countries are discovering bodies with the
heads neatly and surgically removed. The heads are nowhere to be found. When a head is discovered without a body in a rubbish bin in London, experienced detective McVey is called from the United States to investigate. He discovers that the bodies and the head had been frozen at a scientifically impossible temperature before they were dumped.The plot is woven skillfully – initially as a series of seemingly unrelated subplots – and reaches a brutal and exciting zenith in the closing chapters. No one can be trusted in this
novel. As soon as the
reader thinks he or she can relax for a minute, the reader is faced with yet another twist in the tale. Clues abound but the end is a revelation and also deeply satisfying. To reveal it in this abstract before one has actually read the novel would be cruel. Folsom has delivered an excellent fiction thriller. His main characters are well drawn and believable. The conspiracy, while fantastic, contains just enough credibility to be a disturbing possibility given the huge advances in medical technology that occur as we speak.
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