Shadow of Betrayal

By: Brett Battles

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

The meeting place was carefully chosen: an abandoned church in rural Ireland just after dark. For Jonathan Quinn - a freelance operative and professional "cleaner" - the job was only to observe. If his cleanup skills were needed, it would mean things had gone horribly wrong.

But an assassin hidden in a tree assured just that. And suddenly Quinn had four dead bodies to dispose of and one astounding clue - to a mystery that is about to spin wildly out of control.

Three jobs, no questions. That was the deal Quinn had struck with his client at the Office. Unfortunately for him, Ireland was just the first. Now Quinn, along with his colleague and girlfriend - the lethal Orlando - has a new assignment touched off by the killings in Ireland. Their quarry is a U.N. aide worker named Marion Dupuis who has suddenly disappeared from her assignment in war-torn Africa. When Quinn finally catches a glimpse of her, she quickly flees, frantic and scared. And not alone.

For Quinn the assignment has now changed. Find Marion Dupuis, and the child she is protecting, and keep them from harm. If it were only that easy.

Soon Quinn and Orlando find themselves in a bunker in the California hills, where Quinn will unearth a horrifying plot that is about to reach stage critical for a gathering of world leaders - and an act of terror more cunning, and more insidious, than anyone can guess.

Fast, smart, sleek, and stunning, Shadow of Betrayal is vintage Brett Battles: a gritty, gripping masterpiece of suspense, a thriller that makes the pulse pound--and stirs the heart as well.

©2009 Brett Battles (P)2009 Random House Audio

This one was plodding!

Any additional comments?

I'm definitely a Jonathan Quinn fan and I'll continue this series BUT this installment is s-l-o-w due to unnecessary intricacies. It's not the expected Battles' thriller. Scott Brick is wonderful as always but perhaps a faster narration rate would have helped.
By the way...how many times do we need to be directed to Quinn's guilt about Nathan's injury...we get it...to the point of boredom.

I really love this series

Good mysteries, good character development, awesome narrator, and in all of these stories a lot of the bad guys really 'get theirs' - and I like that!!!

maybe just one more

I think I swore off listening to Battles after a previous read, but somehow ended up listening to this anyway. I wish I could edit this book: it's really not a bad story, but Battles gets hung up at least once a chapter on parsing minutiae, with a lot of dialogue about obvious things, a lot of explication of un-spectacular activity, much in the name of verisimilitude but more a delight in naming weapons and lovingly recording all the intricacies of using them. All in all it's an engaging-enough story, but could have been streamlined to good effect.

absolutely wonderful

I loved this book! Scott Brick is my favorite narrator-he could make the phone book interesting. Luckily, he didn't have to try that hard. I could not stop listening from beginning to end. I am looking forward to other reads by this author. This was 1 of 2 favorite audible books-the other was "The Scarecrow" by Michael Connelly. Completely worth the credit.

Scott Brick Is back!

Rereading the Cleaner series and was thrilled to see that he was the narrator. Another stellar story in this series from Brett Battles. I’m old so it’s like I’m hearing it for the first time. Thank you both!

Great story, great narrator

The story was great. Brick waa incredible once again. I truly enjoyed this book and production.

Too much unnecessary detail

If you need to follow Quinn’s progress listen to abridged version if there is one. The details felt like padding and were boring.

The Trio Makes A Good Team

I like the trio of Quinn, Nate, and Orlando. The characters are getting more developed as the series progresses. There were times where Marion, a UN aid worker, was irksome but the author reeled her back before she became completely insufferable. Some of her dialogue and thoughts weren't logical but not enough to distract from the story. The plot is a stretch (the bad guys are relentless in tracking Marion and Iris when there are thousands of kids out there who could have been kidnapped instead of Iris) but there was enough action to keep me engaged, especially in the last half of the book. I'll definitely continue with the series.

Brick's performance was strong; I especially like his Leo Tucker voice.

Can't go wrong with Brett Battles!

Another phenomenal suspense book from Brett Battles. Jonathan Quinn and his team face off against another foe...this one a familiar character from The Cleaner. Taut plot, lightning pace, edge of your seat suspense. Enjoy!

Yes, Yes & YES!

This definitely curbed my weekend activities to the mundane like chopping vegetables for soup base ... so I could continue listening to this amazing story. I somehow feel guilty if I actually sit down to listen to an audio book ... like I'm cheating or something or some other psychobabble reason.

Amazing twists and turns and characters that I could actually care about. Enjoyed the various international as well as west coast settings ... anything other than NYC is a plus in my book.