| In the first of a wave of books written byreal workers about real jobs, firemanDennis Smith held a million readers spell-bound in his best-selling Report fromEngine Co. 82, chronicling the reality ofthe firefighters day from kids false alarmsto the roaring inferno of a major fire. Thatbook was just a beginning. In The Final Fire, Dennis Smith hasturned to fiction, adding human drama toa suspense-filled story of a threatenedstrike of New York City firemen and thesubsequent fires that sweep the city andalmost destroy it. He is working withmajor themes here as well as a taut, fast-paced story of two brothers, hoth firemen,caught in a political battle that rages asunchecked as a fire on a windy day: cor-ruption among city officials in an electionyear, the unspoken and unaware rivalrybetween brothers with different ideolo-gies, and the price that one must pay foran act of conscience or, perhaps, for theavoidance of such an act. "Dammit," Jerryasks when the holocaust has finally sub-sided, "why don t we listen to the voiceswithin us? ls it all like the Phoenix? Eitherbrightness or ash?" Jerry and Tom Ritter are the last broth-ers left in a poor Bronx Irish family thathas already lost two sons to freak acci-dents. They re close, but their lives havemoved in different dircetions. Tom is afamily man, happily inarried with four |
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