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Date Night

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: David Harbour
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Publisher's summary

A race against time becomes a battle for the soul in this suspenseful story from New York Times best seller Jeffery Deaver.

Death is a topic Bradford Douglas is intimately familiar with. The young attorney is on a crusade against capital punishment. He’s saved a number of death row inmates, but none of his cases has been as tough as the one he now faces: Henry Combs, a vicious serial killer, has only hours to live when Douglas is summoned for a Hail Mary attempt to have the man’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment.

As Douglas races to pursue whatever strategies he can think of, he finds his passion for justice giving way to something altogether different.

An obsession.

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About the Creator - Jeffery Deaver

About the Creator

Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into 25 languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark, and Walter Mosley.
The author of 43 novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, and a lyricist of a country-western album, he’s received or been shortlisted for dozens of awards. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller, The Broken Window, and a stand-alone, Edge, were also nominated for that prize. The Garden of Beasts won the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in England. He’s also been nominated for eight Edgar Awards by the MWA.
Deaver has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, Strand Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy
Deaver's most recent works are Hunting Time, a Colter Shaw novel, and The Broken Doll, a four-story collection from Amazon Original Stories. His Shaw novel, The Never Game, will be a CBS Prime-time series later this year.

About the Performer

David Harbour most recently wrapped on Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, in which he stars as the lead alongside Benicio Del Toro and Don Cheadle. He currently stars as Jim Hopper on Stranger Things (Netflix), for which he has been nominated for both a Golden Globe in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series category, and for a Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category. Harbour will next appear in Black Widow as The Red Guardian opposite Scarlett Johansson. His recent credits include Extraction, opposite Chris Hemsworth, 2019’s Hellboy starring as the title character, and David Ayer’s Suicide Squad opposite Will Smith, Jared Leto, and Margot Robbie.

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Best. Ending. Ever.

Ok, I was not expecting that ending! Whaaaat?! Great story and decent performance. Very nice short story!

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Not my style

More of a horror story than a mystery. I did not like it at all

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Interesting concept but makes no sense

Okay, stop reading this if you haven’t read the book yet, because I can’t write this review without spoilers. One of the important rules of writing is: hiding the gun. That means you have to show your audience little hints of what is to come. You can’t just turn a person who dedicates his life to preventing the death penalty into a serial killer without any premise. You need to show how his mind is changed, how he slips into that darkness. In all honesty the ending of this book is total BS. The author wanted to do something unexpected, but even the unexpected needs to fit the story. I felt utterly cheated by the abrupt turn around. The writing was okay, not brilliant, and the characters were a little weak. Not great but the concept gives it an extra star from me (it would have been 2 stars otherwise)

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Date Night

This short story is worth every listen of your time... Performance and story line

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I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!

I just want to take the time to confirm that all of my theories excepting one were right and the one that wasn’t was due to a technicality.

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Review required to finish listening

Had to give a half rate as I’d only half finished the book before falling asleep for the night. Narrator read on like a champ and finished the book apparently. Now in order to finish listening it seems Audible demands this review. Love Deaver’s writing but to be fair, I’m only halfway in.

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Surprised

I love a good book that is to the point and that’s what this was. Very surprised by the ending as it was a completely shock.

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Great Short Story

I'm a big fan of Jeffery Deaver and have read several of his books, and a lot of his short stories. This short story was great and the end will certainly throw you for a loop. David Harbour was excellent with the narrating. I received this from the audible plus catalogue.

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Great short story!

Loved it! Interesting ending and wonderfully descriptive. Love this format, but not easy to do.

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Engrossing!

Let me start by saying I don’t typically write a review for anything. I’m making this exception due to my utter delight with this short story.

I am a voracious reader, and have been for 45 years. It’s not easy to surprise me anymore, but Denver does it with this one.

I recommend giving this story a listen, you won’t be disappointed.

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