Darkside

By: P. T. Deutermann

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

When a midshipman plunges six stories to his death, the U.S. Naval Academy begins investigating an apparent suicide. But there's a bizarre twist: the young man's body is found wearing undergarments belonging to Midshipman Julie Markham, a senior at the academy.

Julie's father, Ev, an Annapolis graduate who is now a professor there, fears his daughter will be blamed by the "Darkside" - the bureaucracy that wants to protect the academy at all costs from scandal. Then there's another death, and the beautiful grounds and impregnable traditions of Annapolis are revealed as the hiding place for a relentless predator who can no longer control an impulse to kill.

©2004 P. T. Deutermann (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Deutermann's latest - a tense mystery set in and around the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis - is sleek, sharp and scary." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Hill is at his best when voicing the sinister musings of the monster no one suspects." ( AudioFile)

Another amazing book!

Deutermann and Hill are dynamite together! I live the stories & how Dick Hill brings the characters to life!

Talk about edge of your seat!

This was THE most exciting audio book I've yet heard.

The narrator Dick Hill, even though not the best I've heard at producing distinctly different voices for the various characters, his level of intensity throughout the story in general was excellent.

The story...hmmm, well, since I was in the Navy myself, was very interesting.

This audio book was so intense, it kept me up nearly all night because I couldn't turn it off.

Really, how did this supervillian get caught?

I wish there wasn't so much babbling on about the women's legs. That, and... there were HOURS of reading time spent in the stupid tunnels (very long drawn out "chase" scene I think) - if I never heard about hot water valves and rusty-doored caving-in tunnels again it will be too soon.

Oh, and some Goths are way smarter than ex-military special forces and NCIS all together. Yeah, sure...

Pretend I'm an NCIS agent with many years experience and I know that Goths are mugging and assaulting people so, of course, it is logical that I will get drunk, get lured outside by a group of them (well, they *are* big-chested women after all), and get my head smashed in. What am I? An idiot?

But the worst part is that I was supposed to believe that a military base would cover up a student's murder, (okay, maybe they would) but then I'm also supposed to believe they'll try to cover up the murder of a cop? Nah... never happen. Oh, and the super-villian was so smart and so fast and so strong and so competent...

The narration was great though.

Dark side

An absolutely terrific read. His stories are great. Great characters, well drawn . The story lines are suspenseful and totally engaging. I heartily recommendation this book.

Never disappointed

Great story, I would give it more stars if I could. Fast paced as all his books with interesting characters.
Dick Hill gives an incredible performance as always.

what a surprise

I enjoyed the whole book but the ending just blew me away. Definitely worth the read

P.T. misses the mark on this one

What disappointed you about Darkside?

I very much enjoyed Deuterman's "Cat Dancers" and "Hunting Season" and therefore sought out more of his works. "Darkside" was far inferior in prose, story line, and character development to these other books.

What was most disappointing about P. T. Deutermann’s story?

Seemingly unending descriptions of the tunnels, doors, keys, and other "details" beneath the halls of the Academy. When the story would again (and again) go subterranean I would say "OK, enough already!." It felt like page-count fill. In an attempt not to divulge the ending (how many times did it end?), his closing treatment of the Shark was juvenile at best.

Which character – as performed by Dick Hill – was your favorite?

Dick Hill is a superb performer, and I have enjoyed him doing so with many books. In this one, his "Shark" was beautiful.