Thr3e

By: Ted Dekker

Narrated by: Rob Lamont

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Imagine answering your cell phone one day to a male voice that gives you three minutes to confess your sin. If you don't, the madman, Slater, will blow your car to smithereens. You barely manage to exit heavy traffic and ditch the car when, precisely three minutes later, your car blows sky high. The media and police descend on the scene; your world has just changed forever.

So begins the nightmare that grows with progressively higher stakes. There's another phone call, another riddle. The cycle will not stop until the world discovers the secret of your sin, but you don't have a clue what that sin is. If not for Jennifer, the brilliant FBI agent working to corner Slater, you would indeed go mad.

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©2003 Ted Dekker (P)2003 Oasis Audio LLC, under arrangement with W Publishing Group

Critic reviews

"Dekker delivers another page-turner with this psychological Christian thriller." (Publishers Weekly)
"There are plenty of thrills and chills." (AudioFile)
"Dekker's pacing is relentless, and the ongoing consideration of evil is intriguing." (Booklist)

Great book

This was the first time that I have listened to a book by Ted Dekker. I was held captive by the first chapter. Couldn't wait until the end of the book to know who, what, and why. I'm looking forward to listening to more of his books.

Cool, enjoyable book!

I really enjoyed this book! Not the canned bood guys and bad guys we come to expect. I had trouble turning this one off.

Best Book of 2005

I loved this book! I could not stop listen to it! It was a GREAT listen from begining to end. The narator I loved. He had different voices for each character! THe end will throw you for a loop!!! I love the way Ted writes with open-ended questions that pulls you through the book!!!
AWESOME!!

Brilliant!!!

Dekker's plot was incredible!! Just as I thought I had it figured out, he took me down another path, but I never once felt manipulated. Having lived in Long Beach, it was nice to hear the names of streets I traveled all the time. The characters and story were well thought out. This book is proof positive that excellent fiction can be written without all the foul language so many other author's stoop to in their feeble attempts to have characters express themselves forcibly. No gratuitously graphic scenes to be squeamish over. Not only is the plot brillant, but the creativity in the use of language is unequaled. All of this added layers of depth to the story and proved that the reader can create their own visual image that is just as vivid as any one gratuitiously graphic paragraph could paint. I can't wait to listen to the rest of Dekker's books. I couldn't stop listening to this book. Lamont's voices were wonderful and consistent throughout also. I'm off to order another Dekker book!

Decent Thriller

This is my first Dekker book. It's a decent whodunnit kind of book, with a different sort of mystery. "Psychological Thriller" is a very apt discription. This book does play with the reader's mind. I didn't notice anything strange about the narration. Some copies may be bad. Call Audible and get another copy before letting the narration frustrate you. They're really good about stuff like that.

loved it!

Overall I have no negative feedback except narrators voice put me to sleep. Great plot twist.

great story, bad audio

the audio/ narrator almost ruined this for me, but I pushed through for the story!

Very Enjoyable

This was a great book, and Rob Lamont did a fantastic job reading. I was completely satisfied with this purchase. Ted Dekker is my new favorite author. The book I read/listend to last was "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown, which totally sucked. That book was contrived and predictable whereas Dekker kept "Thr3e" fresh and suspensful and unpredictable. And, again, Rob Lamont could not have done a better reading: each character's voice was unique and natural sounding. Well done to all involved!

Thr3e

This one really had me going.It was like listening to a techno-thriller TV show,that had me on the edge of my seat to hear what would happen next to the main character.The ending is definitely an eye-opener and had me shaking my head in shock,thinking about how that had come about.Enjoyable.

Very Interesting

There are three ways to rate this book. As with any audio book, the story and the reader are two major factors. As for the story, I loved it and kept finding extra time to listen because I could not put it down. Even to the end, there are questions that need answers. Once answered, everything makes a lot of sense. So the story itself is very satisfying.

I did not, however, enjoy the reader. In some dialogues, I had trouble telling who was saying what. I basically had to guess based on the context. Also, it did not sound as though the reader got into the book much. At one point, his disinterest was almost comical. At a time in the book where one character should have been yelling another's name in near hysteria, the reader sounded as though he were calling for someone who was just barely in the next room with nothing particularly interesting happening.

The story is good enough to overpower the poor reading. But there is a third aspect to this book. As a treatment of the natures of man, it is very interesting. This aspect raises the interest for me even higher than it otherwise would have been. Not to worry, the "doctrinal discussion" does not detract from the story nor does it dominate it. It is tightly woven in and paints a very interesting perspective.

So, if you enjoy a fast-moving, psychological thriller and can get by an uninteresting reader, then you should enjoy this book. If you also like a little doctrinal discussion, then you will enjoy it a little bit more.