Black Sunday

Pages: 320
Published: 1975
Language: English

Michael Lander is a pilot with a dangerous obsession and a plan to turn the Super Bowl into a national tragedy. Working with a foreign operative, he prepares to use his television blimp as a weapon against the thousands gathered in New Orleans. It is a race against time for federal agents to stop the attack before the stadium becomes a graveyard.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Tense Dark Gritty Atmospheric

Villain Protagonist Betrayal

Crime Espionage Military Suspense Thriller Mystery Political Thriller

Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris is an American novelist born in Jackson, Tennessee, who grew up in Rich, Mississippi. He graduated from Baylor University in 1964, worked as a crime reporter for the Waco Tribune-Herald and then for the Associated Press in New York, and published his debut thriller Black Sunday in 1975. He is best known for the Hannibal Lecter novels: Red Dragon (1981), The Silence of the Lambs (1988), Hannibal (1999) and Hannibal Rising (2006). His most recent novel is Cari Mora (2019). The series...