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Fury of the Fifth Angel

Fury of the Fifth Angel

William Turnage

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667 ratings·27 reviews

In 2038, a catastrophic virus decimates the globe after striking the U.S. President during his State of the Union address. Millions perish as suspicion falls on foreign powers and terrorist factions. Could the plague even originate from the future? Congressman Jeff Madison and Vice-President Buddy P...

Pages
315
Format
Kindle Edition
Published
2013-05-05
Publisher
William Turnage

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William Turnage
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William Turnage has hiked through the jungles of Colombia and climbed the mountains of Peru to the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu. He has sand boarded down giant sand dunes in South America and skied through the Italian and Austrian Alps. He competed in a Toughman boxing contest, and has achieved the rank of second...

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M.·4 years ago
It started with a bang – deadly virus, time travel... promising stuff. But *Fury of the Fifth Angel* got dark and depressing real quick. Honestly, William Turnage went a bit overboard with the rape attempts and murder for my liking. Still, I'm weirdly tempted to pick up the sequel. I'm always on the hunt for great thriller books, and despite its flaws, *Fury of the Fifth Angel* has something that keeps you hooked.
Ashley Mindykowski
Ashley Mindykowski·5 years ago
Hard to put down

At first, I really struggled to get into *Fury of the Fifth Angel* by William Turnage, but that feeling was very short-lived. Soon, I had a hard time putting it down. There were plenty of instances where I was pleasantly surprised by where the book went. I definitely didn’t see several of the twists coming! As far as thriller book reviews go, this one's easy: I'm definitely hoping book 2 is just as exhilarating.
Stephen F. Bigelow
Stephen F. Bigelow·5 years ago
A Very Interesting Read

A very interesting and compelling novel indeed. I can't wait for the next book! The continuation of this series really gives me hope. If you're looking for a gripping fantasy novel, check out *Fury of the Fifth Angel* by William Turnage – highly recommended for fans of the genre!
Richard Burke
Richard Burke·5 years ago
Deadly viruses, time travel, superhuman abilities: William Turnage's Fury of the Fifth Angel combined a lot of interesting elements, but for me, it didn't quite land. The idea that time travel doesn't have to be consistent with the past (so you can, like, totally kill your grandfather?) meant that characters died pretty frequently, then just popped back up later. Not really one for me, and not a book I'd recommend in my book reviews.
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Mike·8 years ago
Okay, full disclosure: William Turnage and I were fraternity brothers back in college and even shared a hallway senior year (Go Tribe!). So, when I found out he'd become a published author, I was genuinely surprised – it just never occurred to me he'd be a writer.And another thing - *Fury of the Fifth Angel* was a damn fun book.It was Turnage's debut novel, and a great one at that. It's a doomsday scenario with time travel, presidential politics, several almost-love interests, nanobots, amputati...
Chip
Chip·8 years ago
Fury of the Fifth Angel by William Turnage is a pretty decent thriller, centered around a mysterious virus that wipes out almost everyone on Earth. A handful of survivors are forced to try and reach a top-secret research project in the hopes of using a time machine. Of course, plenty of forces try to eliminate them along the way. The book delivers plenty of action, and the science fiction elements of the story are genuinely interesting. My only real complaint is that Fury of the Fifth Angel feel...
TheKrazySheep
TheKrazySheep·9 years ago
DNF'd on 4/12/16. Spoilers? Possibly? I'll admit, I only made it through 3-4 chapters of *Fury of the Fifth Angel* by William Turnage. Maybe it gets better later on? So far, all the male characters were misogynistic jerks who seemed to have serious virgin/whore complexes about women, or else they were scientists with god complexes. The female characters were even worse—mere caricatures of women (the hot intern, the brainy hot scientist who spills all the CLASSIFIED SECRETS!). I'm not sure how ...
Kira
Kira·10 years ago
This was a quick and totally enthralling read. There were a few typos in the text, but otherwise, it was fine. *Fury of the Fifth Angel* by William Turnage is a very plot-driven novel about a deadly nanovirus and the mind-bending possibilities of time travel. The first half of the book was absolutely fantastic, drawing me right in. But I felt the second half was a bit rushed, packed with non-stop action. A few open-ended questions were raised that I really would have liked to see resolved within...
Procrastinador Diletante
Procrastinador Diletante·11 years ago
Maybe I'm just nitpicky, but certain things annoy me. One of them is military action scenes written by authors who can't even be bothered to research where a particular helicopter can fire missiles from. In this case, we have a Black Hawk firing missiles not from the wings, but from the underside of the fuselage...But the author's problems don't stop there. For him, all powerful politicians come with a mistress included—is it the President of the USA? Of course, he has a mistress! And the Vice P...
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Susan·11 years ago
Fury of the Fifth Angel is a genuinely fast-paced story with absolutely no filler "stuff" that takes up room and time to get to the heart of the story. You don't often find a book like that!The people of Earth are caught off guard by a sudden meteor storm and its dusty tail. But as Earth passes through the tail, it leaves a deadly virus behind. About an hour later, people start getting sick—very sick—and begin to die horrible deaths. The only survivors are those underground or in pressurized env...