• Any Means Necessary

  • A Luke Stone Thriller, Book 1
  • By: Jack Mars
  • Narrated by: K.C. Kelly
  • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,575 ratings)

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Any Means Necessary

By: Jack Mars
Narrated by: K.C. Kelly
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Publisher's summary

When nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York City hospital, the police, in a frantic race against time, call in the FBI. Luke Stone, head of an elite, secretive department within the FBI, is the only man they can turn to. Luke realizes right away that the terrorists' aim is to create a dirty bomb, that they seek a high-value target, and that they will hit it within 48 hours.

A cat and mouse chase follows, pitting the world's most savvy government agents versus its most sophisticated terrorists. As Agent Stone peels back layer after layer, he soon realizes he is up against a vast conspiracy, and that the target is even more high value than he could have imagined - leading all the way to the President of the United States.

With Luke framed for the crime, his team threatened and his own family in danger, the stakes could not be higher. But as a former Special Forces commando, Luke has been in tough positions before, and he will not give up until he finds a way to stop them - using any means necessary.

Twist follows twist as one man finds himself up against an army of obstacles and conspiracies, pushing even the limits of what he can handle, and culminating in a shocking climax.

©2015 Jack Mars (P)2016 Jack Mars

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Nice liberal story with a tough guy

Typical depiction of War Mongering Republicans willing to start WW3 at all costs. Interesting tough guy willing to shoot people in the head, but with a soft dove heart. Can't someone pick an evil enemy other than big oil companies or the Pentagon. This story is NO Mitch Rapp!!!

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What A Stupid Story

What disappointed you about Any Means Necessary?

Story, Narration. Everything

What do you think your next listen will be?

Anything other than from this author or this narrator

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Stupid "southern drawl" for every character.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

NONE!!!

Any additional comments?

I appreciate everyone having different political views. To break it down in this book, all republicans are evil and war loving a**holes and every democrat is a perfect person, who loves all and makes every right decision. It isn't a book, it is an agenda with ridiculous action scenes, and a nonsensical plot . By the way, the narration was like listening to fingernails against a chalk board.

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um ... not remotely like Mitch Rapp

I am guessing those reviews are by the publisher. The book isnt bad and neither is the narration, but it might as well be a different genre than Vince Flynn and Mitch.

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What a Piece of Trash

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A total re-write with a different narrator.

Has Any Means Necessary turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, but it turned me off from Jack Mars and Luke Stone.

How could the performance have been better?

Tell your narrators to do away with the sound effects for one. Two, refuse to read such dribble.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger that I wasted my time and money.

Any additional comments?

Can I get my money back. I would like to program my Audible account to completely shut down my computer if I ever click on one of his books again,

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No Mitch Rapp!

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Luke Stone is a joke! Ex-special forces commander?...gosh I hope not. He can't even fight his own fights without help from Ed which makes him about as intimidating as Elmo on Sesame Street. Story line was good but who wants a weakling for a supposed hero? He gets no respect from anyone-one yet he's supposed to be some bad ass SF guy?

If you’ve listened to books by Jack Mars before, how does this one compare?

First and last Luke Stone story.

What three words best describe K.C. Kelly’s performance?

Very Good Narration

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Any Means Necessary?

All scenes which define Luke as weak and disrespected; which are a lot!

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Excellent political trriller from a new author!

Any Means Necessary is a very good political/espionage thriller. It involves treasonous treachery on the part of high US officials, so I view it as more political than espionage. It likely deserves 4.5 stars, but falls short of a solid 5 stars. This author has great promise. Narration is flawless.

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Absurd Plot

This story is just too far fetched and improbable. Don't waste your time with it.

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Closest thing to Mitch Rapp i've heard. Pls continue. Over the top. Vince would have been proud. Narrative stellar. Never slowed

Closest thing to Mitch Rapp i've heard. Pls continue. Over the top. Vince would have been proud. Narrative stellar. Never slowed

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Who is your fact checker? Entertaining though

I'm willing to suspend reality when I listen to a book, but this book really goes over the top. It was an entertaining book and I listened to the end, but I kept thinking, "Oh come on! Really?!!" And then I got to the part of the book where they implied, then actually said that a man became radioactive after being exposed to radioactive material. Really?? Just FYI, Plutonium may be radioactive. I'm no physicist, but there are probably other elements that are radioactive. But humans don't become radioactive. They may become sick or die. But they don't become radioactive unless they actually ingest some radioactive material. That part of the book just made me shake my head and made me thing the rest of the book was total crap.

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Laced with political propaganda

Sadly ruined by the authors need to fall back paranoid left wing stereotypes. Could've taken a 24 style approach to politics.

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