(pb; 2014: book sequel to the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes and prequel to the film/movie tie-in novel Dawn of the Planet of Apes, by Alex Irvine)
From the back cover:
"Caesar and his followers have escaped the clutches of man, fighting their way across the Golden Gate Bridge and taking refuge in the vast redwood forest known as Muir Woods. There they hope to establish a home, far from the humans who so horribly abused them.
"But mankind has far worse things to worry about.
"The 'Simian Flu' has begun to strike down unsuspecting innocents throughout San Francisco. What began as isolated cases quickly become a full-on epidemic. There are those who blame the apes, and would like to take revenge, while others hunt Caesar and his troop for their own insidious reasons. Either way the result will be the same. . ."
Review:
Firestorm is a cinematically streamlined, smart, humane and entertaining novel that links Rise and Dawn. Its pace never lags, it shares two main characters (Gary Oldman's Dreyfus and Andy Serkis's Caesar) with Dawn (as well as other supporting characters), while making plot-pertinent mentions of James Franco's Will Rodman from Rise. Not only that, its tone is consistent with its bookending films and its ending is satisfactory.
Good summer blockbuster read, this.
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