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Rules of Deception
- Dr. Jonathan Ransom, Book 1
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Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.
Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he journeys to a remote railway station only to find himself in a life-and-death struggle for his wife's possessions. In the aftermath of the assault, he discovers that his attackers - one dead, the other mortally wounded - were, in fact, Swiss police officers. More frightening still is evidence of an extraordinary act of betrayal that leaves Jonathan stunned.
Suddenly the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin, Jonathan is forced on the run. His only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind the secret his wife kept from him and in stopping the terrifying conspiracy that threatens to bring the world to the brink of annihilation. Step by step, he is drawn deeper into a world of spies, high-tech weaponry, and global terrorism - a world where no one is whom they appear to be and where the end always justifies the means.
Rules of Deception is a brilliantly conceived, twisting tale of intrigue and deceit written by the master of the espionage thriller for the 21st century.
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Yawn!
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By: Paul Christopher
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First to Kill
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- Narrated by: Dick Hill
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When you're the best at what you do, it's not always easy to walk away. Nathan McBride was retired. The trained Marine sniper and covert CIA operative had put the violence of his former life behind him. But not anymore. A deep-cover FBI agent has disappeared along with one ton of powerful Semtex explosive, enough to unleash a disaster of international proportions. The U.S. government has no choice but to coax Nathan out of retirement.
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Sniper thriller par excellence
- By Ed on 06-17-09
By: Andrew Peterson
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The Death Trust
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- Narrated by: Mel Foster
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Amid the dust, death, and chaos of Iraq, an American soldier on a routine patrol is killed by an unseen enemy. It's a tragedy but not a crime - until it's linked to the bizarre death of a decorated four-star general who happens to be the dead man's father...and the son-in-law of history's most feared and powerful U.S. vice president.
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An action book with out much action...
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When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin.
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Uncanny Portentous Prophecy
- By Snoodely on 10-27-13
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Matthew Dunn spent years as an MI6 field operative working on some of the West’s most clandestine missions. He recruited and ran agents, planned and participated in special operations, and operated deep undercover throughout the world. In Spycatcher he draws on this fascinating experience to breathe urgent, dynamic new life into the contemporary spy novel. Featuring deft and daring superspy Will Cochrane, Dunn paints a nerve-jangling, bracingly authentic picture of today’s secret world. It is a place where trust is precious and betrayal is cheap....
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Juvenile and just bad
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Ridley is back, but he wasn't far away.
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Page turner
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They were orphans, Chris and Saul - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot.
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Great book, choppy reading
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Dreamland
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Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top guns come to test them, on the frontlines of a new era in warfare. The fiasco of a spy's infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close Dreamland down. To clean up the mess, and save Dreamland from the congressional chopping block, Lt. Colonel Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian is sent in.
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Really boring!
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Detailed espionage, character development shallow
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Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
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Fast Paced - Good Read!
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- Ted
- 06-30-18
A Bit Bland for Reich
This is my 3rd Christopher Reich book and the first in this Doctors Without Borders series. Pity, I couldn't suspend disbelief long enough to get really into this improbably plot. Complexity is not either a necessary or sufficient cause for excitement. OK, Ransom's a craftsman, but here he offers us little wonder - and art without wonder is merely craft.
Frankly he did not make me interested in any of the characters, especially his super hero Dr. Jonathan Ross. I know that improbability is an essential ingredient in a great thriller recipe. But too much of any condiment will spoil every delicacy... And here, Reich is NOT delicate. Moreover, when it's essential to reviewers to continually describe the man's wife as the "beautiful spouse" well, this reasonably powerful character's reduced to another triviality.
Paul Michael reads well, but here his reading's dulled by the stuff he's got to read. Pity, I went from a fan to a yawner with this series. Still, lots of people seem to like it, maybe it gets more exciting as the epic unfolds. I won't find out.
Still I enjoyed The Take, and Invasion of Privacy sufficiently that I'll skip the series and consider buying Reich's next non-Jonathan Ross and-his-beautiful-wife's novel.
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- S. Barnes
- 03-15-23
Good story, but a little slow
I definitely liked this story and the performance was very good. I found my attention wandering several times so I think it was bit slow.
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- Barnabasdaughter
- 12-17-09
A fine action yarn
A somewhat believable "action hero". With foibles and weaknesses that are merely not quite believable. (In other words, not completely ostentatious like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.)
I personally found the author's liberal bias a bit annoying, but perhaps others will find that refreshing.
The plot was fairly fresh for a genre that tends to be somewhat overworked.
Excellent good light entertainment. Nothing profound.
I've listen to it more than once, and will probably listen to it again in the future.
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- Bulldog
- 04-13-12
Captivating Book, Even Better Narration
Would you listen to Rules of Deception again? Why?
I've already listened twice, and I'm sure I'll listen again. I found it to be an engaging "read" with a few real surprise twists that I certainly didn't see coming.
Is it a little farfetched at times? Yes - but most good thrillers are to some degree. For the most I think Reich does a good job in making it believable (mountaineering and medicine aside, since I don't know enough about either one to judge the validity of one reviewers criticisms).
Paul Michael? Absolutely terrific - perhaps the best narrated book I've ever listened too. His pacing and timing are dead on, and his ability to do so many characters so well really makes the book "come to life" as it were
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- SarSar
- 04-17-11
A great new thriller series
I purchased this book during the 1st in a Series Sale. Its so great to discover a new author and lead characters - Christopher Reich and his character, Dr. Johnathon Ransom are no exception. The narration is also great - to date I haven't experienced a narrator who could master so many different accents and dialects. This book is a good thriller that kept me guessing and wanting to download the next in the series immediately - spoler alert - don't read the reviews for Rules of Vengence if you don't want to have any of the plot twists exposed!
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- itinerant
- 12-06-08
write what you know . . .
This novel features a protagonist who's both a famous doctor and a famous mountaineer. Within the first ten minutes, however, the author proves he knows absolutely nothing about either medicine or mountaineering. He may be a real pro about international finance . . . but just as I wouldn't try to write a book about international finance (I can't balance my own checkbook, neither should Reich attempt to write about mountaineering or medicine, not without hiring an editor who does, anyway. These errors are so egregious they're embarrassing, truly breaking the contract of willing suspension of disbelief upon which the credible narrative relies.
Nonetheless, as a potboiler, as background noise, the plot moves along . . . predictably and with the occasional howler of absurd ignorance. Better than listening to chain saws or other power tools, but more for comic relief than verisimilitude.
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- Dr.
- 07-16-10
wonder book to listen to on the road
I was thoroughly entertained for hours listening to this narration of the book. The narrator did a good job of accents and characters and the plot was complex enough to keep you listening. I hated having to fill up with gas and pause the book at stops along the way.
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- Shawn K.
- 10-14-17
Exciting & filled with adventure.
The beginning was difficult to separate each of the characters, but as time went on I was able to keep track. Lots of surprises & adventures with unexpected twists in the road. I look forward to the rest if the books in the series.
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- Cody A. Connell
- 07-26-20
pretty great book
the author/ narrator combo are so good. i recommend this book for any fan of good fiction!
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- Susan
- 06-16-18
The plot was a little unbelievable,
but Paul Michael makes it wall worth a listen. His narration is spot on...enough so I ordered the second in the series. I know the story will be less than a thrill a minute (although a great deal better than some authors' creations), but as long as Paul Michael is at the microphone, I'll listen. (Shallow much? Guess I'll own up to it.)
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