• Ash

  • Asher Benson Book 1
  • By: Jason Brant
  • Narrated by: Wayne June
  • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (200 ratings)

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Ash

By: Jason Brant
Narrated by: Wayne June
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9 AM EST: A senator shoots himself on national television.

10:32 AM EST: An entire floor of government agents leap to their death from their office building.

12:57 PM EST: All the police officers inside a station murder each other.

And the day has just begun.

Lieutenant Asher Benson left Iraq with a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and a Purple Heart. His doctors warned that the symptoms would be life altering. They had no idea. As his body healed, the thoughts of those around him began to echo through Ash's mind, stretching the boundaries of his sanity.

Five years later, Ash is drowning the voices with copious amounts of booze and self-loathing.

When unidentified intelligence agents abduct him in broad daylight, Ash is thrust into a world of espionage and assassinations. A unique terrorist is operating on U.S. soil, and the government needs Ash, and the malady that has plagued him for half a decade, to find the killer.

©2014 Jason Brant (P)2015 Jason Brant

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a light but fast-paced thriller

Ash is the first in the Asher Benson Series, with a little paranormal hint. Asher Benson, a war veteran suffers from PTSD and has a purple heart, after a brain injury he was able to read people’s minds and with this new gift or rather a curse he is more troubled than ever because while walking on a street, the thoughts of the people around him form a chaos in his mind as if they are shouting and screaming in his ears.

Able to read people’s minds and unable to stop himself from filtering the thoughts, Ash is aware of the grave a danger he is in or how would the government make use of him if they ever knew what he could do. He only has one friend named Drew and he tries his best to keep himself out of Drew’s mind.

The story begins with Ash stopping a bank robbery by reading the robber’s thoughts and talking him out of it when he meets Sammy who considers him, her hero. The government gets ahold of him and that’s where the action starts and never stops till the end. Ash and his team get into a mess and are trying to prevent a tragedy about to happen.

As much as it is a thriller, it is quite humorous too. Nami, one of the characters is like a breath of fresh air in the story, and the dialogues between Drew and Ash bring a chuckle. Anyone who’d like to read a light but fast-paced thriller, this is for you.

However, after all the praise about the story, there were some things specific to audiobooks that are not like-able about this one. Some sort of music at the very beginning of the book is fine but at the beginning of every chapter it becomes annoying and distracting, it kills the mood. Besides, the music is also not that great. The production was not so convenient to listen to, the voice seemed suppressed and blurred at times, and it was just not clear on higher volumes. The idea of projecting people’s thoughts (whenever Ash listens) in a deep echoing voice was a good one but again they weren’t clear and didn’t seem really necessary. The sounds of gunshots and the police radios right in the middle of a huge twist made me feel like I was going to miss something which could have had a great impact on the story by itself. The narration was overall good, but had there been none of these extra little things, it would have been excellent.

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Loved the story. Bought in Audible and Amazon. In search of book two. The humor reminds me of Nelson Demille's Agent John Corey.

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excellent thriller book. it was fast past and alw

this book was a suspense from beginning to end. the reading was easy to understand and voice changes for different characters easy to follow.

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Ordered by Mistake

Best mistake I’ve ever made. I almost immediately got caught up in the writer’s skill and enjoyed this often gruesome story. Not at all what I would usually read, but it’s based on fictional skills. It’s entertaining. I intend to try book 2.

I agree with others who disliked the brief musical interludes between chapters. They are distracting, and I was eager to continue reading.

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Ash

This started out as a bleh first person stuck in the muck kind of tale, but the longer I read it, the more I appreciated the humor and really wanted to see where the story went. Decent start to a series, looking forward to finishing it.

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Not a genre I like

This was in Audible under the category of Mystery and Thrillers. I consider it Science Fiction. I suppose it is a good book if you like Science Fiction. I do not. I did like the sound effects in the book. Not only was the narration good but it also had sound effects like rain sounds when the book said it was raining.

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Action

This book had nonstop action. It was so exciting that I couldn't stop reading. I want to read more from this author.

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This was a pretty good book

This is a pretty good book. It keeps you engaged in such a far out storyline that you want more!! Great characters, Good plot, and an ending that that lets you know there is more of the same excitement to come in the next book. The one thing I really hated...ok, it just annoyed the crap out of me is the music in between chapters...MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

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Thrilling and Violent

Definitely a fast-moving and exciting story but it is a little too full of vulgarity and violence for my taste. The author does a great job of eliciting sympathy from the reader for the main character due to what he's gone through. The performance is pretty good as well but the music and sound effects actually detract from the narration.

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some hokey dialogue but good plot

Wayne June is awesome. He alone is worth buying the audio book. Brant needs to cut down the canned discourse though.

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