Line #3 Literature/DestinationZero


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2	[[caption-width-right:284: If you thought you knew suspense and intrigue then you don't know Jack!]]
3	''Final Destination: Destination Zero'' is a novel by David [=McIntee=] released in 2005, the second Black Flame ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' book.
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5	After an investigative journalist narrowly cheats death in a terrorist attack she sees a great angle for a story by telling the survivors' tales in her magazine. When the survivors start turning up dead though she begins to suspect foul play and finds herself dragged into a world of spiritualism and conspiracies that ultimately leads back to Victorian England and Jack the Ripper.
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7	!! Destination Zero contains tropes such as:
8	* AssholeVictim: [[DrJerk Stewart Tubbs]] and Al Kinsey. [[spoiler:Also Bill Sangster, following his reveal as Jack the Ripper.]]
9	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Hal Ward.
10	* DeathByIrony: Al Kinsey is decapitated while a prostitute is giving him head.
11	* EyeScream: A character gets blinded by snake venom.
12	* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Patti Fuller is the only survivor of the train incident. A bit downplayed example since Jim also survives the events of the book because he was never targeted by Death in the first place.]]
13	* GenreRoulette: The book jumps from modern horror, Gothic horror,and even a brief dip into action.
14	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Zack gets bisected by a large glass pannel in a ''vertical'' fashion.
15	* IntercontinuityCrossover: Though never identified by name, the detective in the UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain segments is obviously Franchise/SherlockHolmes.
16	* KillItWithFire: Matthew gets burned alive ''from the inside out''.
17	* KillItWithWater: The first victim probably could swim, but his leg was broken and he was being bashed around by a motorbike underwater. Eventually, he drowns.
18	* MeaningfulName: Susan Fries. [[ManOnFire No need to guess how she meets her end]].
19	* MistakenForTerrorist: It turns out the bombers were just criminals who wanted millions of dollars.
20	* NoDeadBodyPoops: [[spoiler:Averted. Steward Tubbs loosens his bowels after he's autopsied alive.]]
21	* NotQuiteDead: Subverted. [[spoiler: Stewart Tubbs was still alive, but no one realized it until after they cut him open, broke open his ribs, and pulled out his lung during the autopsy. ''Then'' he woke up, and subsequently [[KilledOffForReal died]]]].
22	* OffWithHisHead: Al Kinsey gets swiftly decapitated. While having sex in the speeding car, no less!
23	* RecycledINSPACE: About half of the book is set in [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain 1888]] and involves a group surviving a house fire after one of them has a vision of it before it happens.
24	* ResurrectionGambit:
25	** Patti's grandmother apparently cheated death by being able to escape a disaster. In order to buy herself more time, she drowned herself, so that she could be resurrected.
26	** This is how [[spoiler:Patti herself]] ends up as the FinalGirl. [[spoiler:She overdoses so that she can be revived and go on living.]]
27	* SerialKiller: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper shows up here. [[spoiler:He becomes the main villain during the climax of the Victorian segment.]]
28	* SnakesAreEvil: ''Three'' of the victims are killed by poisonous snakes ''in a rapid succession''.

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