Daylight - Max Allan Collins

Written by Max Allan Collins
Read by Cheryl Lamar. various
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

A novelization of the movie
Publisher: Brillance 1996
Length: 5hrs 34min

From Library Journal review….
When a stolen car recklessly encounters three flatbed trucks illegally carrying hazardous waste through Manhattan’s Holland Tunnel, the ensuing explosion closes the tunnel at both ends. Eleven ordinary people are left alive in the tunnel and must somehow deal with this most extraordinary situation. The story is told mainly through a series of first-person narratives by some of those in the tunnel?a teenage girl off with her parents for a “family weekend,” a young prostitute, a reserved older man, a brave young career woman?and by rescue workers on the outside. Most commanding is a discredited, former EMS chief, Kit Latura, who arranges to get into the tunnel to lead the survivors to safety.

Effectively narrated by 13 readers, the voices portray fear, courage, and even ironic humor as the story is bounced from one narrator to the next. Interestingly, we always see Latura’s actions from another’s point of view. The only problem with this recording is technical in nature: sometimes a loud, clear reading voice is followed by a soft, low voice, and in order to adequately listen, occasional volume adjustment is required.

Sylvester Stallone stared in Universal Pictures’ big ticket event of ‘96!

Reader Reviews…. As the prologue describes it, it is a “documentary-in-prose”. That sounds weird, right? It actually works. Although not brilliantly, it does work, strange as it may sound. The ‘narrator’ interviews the survivors, and they each tell their own story. It is quite hard to keep track of each individual person, a couple I muddled up more than once. But if you’ve seen the film already (it’s excellent), you’ll find it easier to keep track of the characters. And the film sticks pretty closely to what is described in this book, apart from the documentary-in-prose.

An enjoyable novelisation, if you can excuse the strange way of telling the story and the lack of tension.

WorldCat has three listing of this book from tape. Each with a different length and none quite the same as this upload. It was from tape and trimed of all info and I can not find a list of cast members. Sound is good but I normalized in Audacity.