In the first of a wave of books written by
real workers about real jobs, fireman
Dennis Smith held a million readers spell-
bound in his best-selling Report from
Engine Co. 82, chronicling the reality of
the firefighters day from kids false alarms
to the roaring inferno of a major fire. That
book was just a beginning.
In The Final Fire, Dennis Smith has
turned to fiction, adding human drama to
a suspense-filled story of a threatened
strike of New York City firemen and the
subsequent fires that sweep the city and
almost destroy it. He is working with
major themes here as well as a taut, fast-
paced story of two brothers, hoth firemen,
caught in a political battle that rages as
unchecked as a fire on a windy day: cor-
ruption among city officials in an election
year, the unspoken and unaware rivalry
between brothers with different ideolo-
gies, and the price that one must pay for
an act of conscience or, perhaps, for the
avoidance of such an act. "Dammit," Jerry
asks when the holocaust has finally sub-
sided, "why don t we listen to the voices
within us? ls it all like the Phoenix? Either
brightness or ash?"
Jerry and Tom Ritter are the last broth-
ers left in a poor Bronx Irish family that
has already lost two sons to freak acci-
dents. They re close, but their lives have
moved in different dircetions. Tom is a
family man, happily inarried with four
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