KnockOut: An FBI Thriller, Book 13

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo, Renee Raudman

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

The first time she spoke to him was at midnight.

Seven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after he’d brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew she’d found him. She called Savich, but she didn’t use the phone.

They were burying dead people in my daddy’s grave . . . they’re coming after us. Please help me.

Who’s they?

Blessed, he’s coming.

Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Virginia, a small mountain town near the Titus Hitch Wilderness, goes looking for a missing little girl. Soon after he finds her, Ethan realizes that Autumn has brought him a huge problem – a relentless madman who has the ability to control others simply by looking at them. And the madman is after her and her mom.

It’s Uncle Blessed, and he wants Autumn.

When Savich answers Autumn’s call, she tells him Blessed is from Bricker’s Bowl, Georgia. Savich and Sherlock go to Blessed’s home, learn about his brother, Grace, and meet their mother, Shepherd. Savich soon realizes the only way to stop Blessed is to “cut off the snake’s head.”

Back in Titusville, Ethan, Autumn, and her mother, Joanna, are forced to hide from Blessed and Grace in the wilderness. Ethan knows the brothers will never give up their insane pursuit for Autumn.

It’s a race to stop the madness, or the madness will destroy them all.

Listen to another FBI Thriller.

©2009 Catherine Coulter (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

ESP and Psychotic Killers

This was a great book.Sherlock and Dillion had two very complex cases on their hands. One deals with the power of ESP and the other about two Psychotic killers. This was A mind thrilling read could not quit listening until it was over.

Another Great Cc Story

Love Catherine Coulter’s FBI series. Interesting characters, plots and plenty of action. Dylan and Sherlock are favorites.

waste of money

The story line is lame and predictable and the writing amateurish. Don't waste your time or money on this one.

I‘ve tried multiple times but can’t listen.

Ms. Coulter is an icon in suspense, quirky surprising twists to her stories and of course our and Sherlock. Do Not spend time, credit on it.

Too imaginative

This is the first of the FBI series that I have not enjoyed. I like to at least think I can believe in the plot and the characters, but this one is too imaginative. Over the top on the mind power and the bad guys are totally unbelievable. Would not recommend or read again.

not my favorite in this series. too long

Would you try another book from Catherine Coulter and/or Paul Costanzo and Renee Raudman ?

yes and I have enjoyed this series but this story line was slow ....all through the book or maybe it is getting routine...

What do you think your next listen will be?

something different...

Would you listen to another book narrated by Paul Costanzo and Renee Raudman ?

oh yes

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

just more of the same

Any additional comments?

too long

Really Bad

Maybe the book was good, but the narration was awful. The voices were exceptionally irritating. This was the first audible book I could not finish.

Not the best.

The storyline drifts around two lines only connected by Savage and Sherlock, and not too tightly. The character development of the antagonists is shallow and cartoonish at times. I will check to not have to listen to the readers again, also. As said, not the best, but probably the longest,unfortunately.

Predictable all the way

In other episodes I've read from this series, Coulter used some restraint and kept the supernatural element to just a dash of spice. But in this one, she takes the hoodoo way over the line, letting it overwhelm the story and turn it into a shapeless mass. No plot-worthy parameters remain.

The characters flop, too. Coulter has always been noticeably cartoonish, but didn't run amok until this one.

She's also maddeningly repetitive, not just with statements, but with actions and events. Worst of all, the plot was so predictable that I found myself skipping large chunks, only to tune in later to find that things had gone exactly as I'd known they would. In fact, I fell asleep -- again -- just before the end, and couldn't stir up enough interest to rewind and finish it.

AUDIO:
The producers chose to do that awful thing of swapping between readers. Including this novel, I've never seen that done well. Rather, it's
disruptive and distracting. Costanzo has a high pitch, almost adolescent, which saps strength from the story. Raudman is awful beyond belief. I thought I'd experienced the worst overacting possible in audio, but she trumps them all.

talk about jump the shark

I started listening to this series because I ran out of my top 3 authors, Vince Flynn, Nelson DeMille and David Baldacci. Then ran out of my second tier authors of Michael Connelly, and Stephen Cannell. I had high hopes for the series and was all ready to put her in a solid category of third tier along with Lee Childs and John Sandford but this last book was really bad.

A few books back she had the hero seeing and hearing a ghost which was weird but I plowed on to this last published book in the series. Now I am sorry I wasted my time.

This last book was so far fetched she just jumped the shark. If she is going to write sci fi fine but don’t label it as a FBI series.

And what is the deal with changing readers? Out of the 13 books she had 9 different readers, as always Dick Hill was great but the others left a lot to be desired.

I do not know if MS Coulter is a feminist of not but women readers do not normally do a good job of sounding like a man.

Skip this series so you do not disappoint yourself.