• Down to the Wire

  • By: David Rosenfelt
  • Narrated by: Matt Wolfe
  • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (395 ratings)

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Down to the Wire

By: David Rosenfelt
Narrated by: Matt Wolfe
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Publisher's summary

As a small-town reporter for the Bergen News, Chris Turley could never measure up to his father, Edward - one of the last great investigative journalists. With his father's legend ever-present, Chris dreams of his own Pulitzer, as he bides his time covering press conferences and town hall meetings. Then one day his fortunes turn.

While waiting to interview a source, Chris witnesses the explosion of a nearby office building and is thrust into action rescuing five people from near-certain death. His firsthand account in the next day's newspaper makes him an instant hero and a celebrity. And that's not all. The source's next tip leads to a second headline-grabbing story.

Suddenly, Chris' career is looking a lot more like his father's. But what seemed like a reporter's dream quickly becomes an inescapable nightmare. This anonymous source has had a plan for Chris all along, and his fortune for being in the right place at the right time is not a coincidence at all.

Down to the Wire, David Rosenflet's shocking new thriller about an ordinary man who gets exactly what he's always wanted at a price he can never pay, is an intense thrill ride that will keep listeners from wanting to press pause right up to the end.

©2010 Matt Wolfe (P)2010 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“High-voltage entertainment from an author who plots and writes with verve and wit....Plot twists and red herrings abound, and Rosenfelt ratchets up tension with the precision of a skilled auto mechanic wielding a torque wrench.” ( Booklist)

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  • 10-03-19

Entertaining!

Listened start to finish in one day.
Good reader!
Suspenseful! Lots of twists and turns!

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what a ride

slowish start but once under way, watch out! it takes you this way, then that, then doubles back for a mean spin. watch out for the water hazard as your feet are drug through the thought processes of the main character only to squeeze you through a knot hole you didnt see coming. the light at the end of the tunnel is a train so roll with it. Well done Mr Rosenfelt, sir. i loved it!

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Entertaining

Standard fare but an entertaining tale. I enjoyed it on the commutes around town.

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Disappointing

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Love the Andy Carpenter series with its wit and intelligence and likeable characters. Can't quite believe this is the same author. The story lacks heart and depth and the writing is unadorned. Another serial killer plotline with a revolting bad guy doing random, revolting killing. What's to enjoy?

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Waste of credits

Having just finished the Andy Carpenter series of books I was looking for some more similar entertainment. I should have paid attention to the one very negative review - it is really hard to believe this is written by the same author! The plot is shallow, the characters are unlikeable and not believable, and the narrator probably made it all worse with stagey bad guy voices that sounded the same as old lady voices. There is no humor in this book either.

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definitley not like the Andy Carpenter series!!

Would you try another book from David Rosenfelt and/or Matt Wolfe?

I can't believe this was written by the same person who is writing the Andy Carpenter series...
and the reader was terrible!

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tv crime drama script

I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as the dog series. It was written more like the script of a TV crime drama.

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predictable, boring junior high level book

I am a fan of David Resenfelt's book series about Andy Carpenter and his dogs.I think they are clever and entertaining. This book is so predictable, unclever, and unentertaining, that I can't believe the same person wrote it. I would like to think he didn't, because it makes me reluctant to download any more David Rosenfelt books. How does something like this get published?

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Not your best

Definitely not your best Mr R.
Possibly a good narrator may have improved the result?

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