Tempted by Trouble

A Novel

By: Eric Jerome Dickey

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

Dmytryk Knight was a respectable man who had followed the blueprints for the American Dream: go to college, find the girl of your dreams, get married, buy a house on the affluent side of Detroit. He’d done it all by the book. But when a crippling recession annihilates the auto industry, Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, suddenly find themselves without jobs and in foreclosure. And after two years of taking any job they can find and trying to live honestly, they realize that integrity just doesn’t pay the bills.

Given the right circumstances, even the best of us can turn bad.

When a powerful and ruthless criminal named Eddie Coyle arrives from Rome and gives Dmytryk an opportunity to make fast money, Cora urges him to man up. All he has to do is join Eddie Coyle’s crew and rob some banks: two minutes, in and out, nobody gets hurt. Torn between desperation and his values, but unable to resist the promise of instant cash, Dmytryk gives in - but no sooner does he enter a life of crime than Cora vanishes.

Now, more determined than ever to get his life back on track, Dmytryk is only one bank job away from having enough money to leave Eddie Coyle and find Cora. But when the job goes dangerously wrong, Dmytryk is forced to test his moral compass in ways he never imagined and realizes that we can plan all we want, but sometimes fate has a different agenda....

©2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.; 2010 Eric Jerome Dickey

Critic reviews

"[Dickey has] perfected an addictive fictional formula." ( The New York Times)

"[Eric Jerome Dickey is] the king of African American fiction." ( Entertainment Weekly)

Started Out Slow But The Finish Was Amazing!!!

When I first started listening to this book, I found it really difficult to like Tempted by Trouble because I didn’t like any of the characters. Dmytryk was weak. There’s nothing I hate worse than a weak azz man and Dmytryk went above and beyond to show just how weak he was behind that backstabbin’ traitorous wife of his. I saw through Cora’s Maybelline from the moment she was introduced so, I don’t understand why it took Dmytryk six years to finally see what kind of woman he married. Cora was selfish, ungrateful, and disrespectful. It wasn’t all that surprising that she ended up in Eddie Coyle’s bed. We all know that heffa slept with him when she came home with that fur coat. Dmytryk was the only one delusional about that. And, Jackie’s azz was just unstable. Dmytryk showed just how bad his taste in women was when he slept with her crazy azz. On top of the dislikable characters, there wasn’t a black woman in sight in this book. Cora and Jackie were both of Hispanic descent. I’m not a fan of interracial relationships so, I gave myself major cool points for even finishing this book. And after all of the murder, betrayal, and disrespect, Dmytryk’s weak azz still took Cora back and left the money! Or, so I thought. Honey, my mind was blown when I realized that whole scene that played out in the kitchen was with Cora’s ghost! You betta come through with the major plot twist! Everything that happened from the time Cora begged Dmytryk to take her back to when the FBI knocked on his door was a figment of his imagination. Whew! I’m just glad he finally man upped and killed that heffa, Jackie, and Eddie Coyle. But, Cora definitely earned that hot led. There were so many twists and turns in this book and, although I didn't like most of the characters I have to say, EJD kept the storyline so interesting that I couldn’t stop reading. In the end, Tempted by Trouble turned out to be a really good book.

Disappointed

This was the worst EJD book I've ever read. It was 8 hours of so what who cares.

I didn't like it

It was too slow. I love the voice of Dion Graham, and I love Mr. Dickey. This one just didn't keep my attention.

Not the most exciting storyline

I love a good EJD book but this one was simply boring to me. I kept listening with hopes of it getting better but it didn't. Just boring from begining, middle, to end for me.

Disappointing... boring....too slow...

I'm a big fan of most of Dickey's work - especially the Gideon series of novels. If you're looking for more of that type - this book definitely not one to recommend. The narration is great as usual, but the story is way to slow with sporadic action mostly late in the book, and the characters are..... (odd choice of word here but fitting)....irritating. Main character is a morally mixed up whining sap. Listened to the whole book but can't say that I enjoyed it.

Disappointed

This book was not what I expected from Mr. Dickey. It was really slow and I found it hard to get into. I have to agree with the some of the other reviews...it was a waste of a credit. If it is availble at the library I would get it from there and save a credit.

Boring!!!

I tried over and over to get into this book,complete waste of time and credit.

BLAHHHHHHHH

This book was just ok, it took me forever just to listen to it because it just did not keep my attention. The ending was ok but the book was just BLAHHHH to me.