• The Dark Tide

  • By: Andrew Gross
  • Narrated by: Melissa Leo
  • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (317 ratings)

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The Dark Tide

By: Andrew Gross
Narrated by: Melissa Leo
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Publisher's summary

An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge-fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of 18 years is dead.

On that same day, a suspicious hit-and-run accident leaves a young man dead in Karen's hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut. Ty Hauck, a detective, becomes emotionally caught up in the case and finds a clue that shockingly connects the two seemingly unrelated events.

Months later, two men show up at Karen's home digging into Charles's business dealings. Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing - and the trail points squarely to Charles. With doubt suddenly cast on everything she has ever known, Karen, with Hauck, steps into a widening storm of hedge-fund losses, international scams, and murder. And as the investigations converge, these two strangers touched by tragedy are pulled into a deepening relationship and unwittingly open the door to a twisted - and deadly - conspiracy.

With its breakneck pacing, plentiful twists, compelling characters, and abundant heart, The Dark Tide confirms Andrew Gross' place as a master storyteller at the top of his game.

©2008 Andrew Gross (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"While the reader will occasionally see the next drop, tunnel or curve looming far ahead, the roller-coaster thrills are still there in abundance." ( Publishers Weekly)

What listeners say about The Dark Tide

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    2 out of 5 stars

Why curse?

Why was the wife cursing? It made no sense.
And what in the world was the sex about in this book. Ill timed, and made no sense according to the emotion of the scenes and points in the story.
Very disappointed in this solo effort. I was drawn to it because he co wrote a book with Patterson, but clearly he is not ready. Gross tries to force twists and gets repetitive and overly descriptive. I did not have that big of a problem with the narrator, she is okay, it is the story that drives you nuts rather than the voice.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Suspensful!

Excellent read! Andrew Gross keeps readers interested and entertained as the story develops. The characters are believable and well-developed. The plot is interesting and keeps you guessing until the last page.

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

A good story

While I agree with some of the other reviewer's I have to rate this as one of the better mysteries I've listened to recently. This is in the class of Michael Connelly or Stephen J. Cannell. A good story with plenty of twists and turns, some obvious, some not. I don't usually like female readers but Mellissa Leo did an excellent job. I think she does male voices a lot better than a lot of male readers do female voices. You'll like this story. Worth the credit. Definitely.

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    1 out of 5 stars

The Dark Tide

This is unquestionably the worst audio book I have ever had the poor judgment to listen to all the way through. The plot is implausible, the dialog is stiff and phony and there are errors throughout. At the end of one chapter, the woman "doesn't notice the small plane circling overhead" and later "remembers the plane circling overhead". The villain drowning his victim laughs that the "jet stream" is warm this time of year, when it should be "gulf stream". The list goes on. Please save your credits.

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    1 out of 5 stars

very disappointing

The writing is immature, with repetitively mind numbing dialogue, and "love" scenes that seemed forced and ridiculous. The narration is an uninspired drone, punctuated with whines and overpronounced vowels. I would be very hesitant to ever listen/read anything by this author in the future, and I certainly won't be listening to this narrator again.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Dark Tide

This was a very well narrated book. The story kept us very interested and was most enjoyable.

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  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

The Perfect Storm

This book is the perfect storm of a bad book and a terrible narrator (that quavering voice gives me nightmares). I am looking forward to the glad day when the whole dog's breakfast will be over and the silly, dopey -- and whiney, oh can she whine -- Karen will be no more. Since I work in Old Greenwich, if I could find her, I'd do her in myself.

For Gross, no idea or emotion can be offered up once but repeated and repeated until the poor listener is almost driven mad. Add that to the fact that about every 6th page someone's heart is almost stopped, or pounding or given to some other malady because of shock and you get the idea.

I have so come to hate most of the characters that the only thing that keeps me going is the hope that the villians will succeed and the main characters will get their throats deservedly slit. That's unlikely though. That would require some sort of plotting where you cannot see what's coming at least 100 pages ahead.

Save your credits. Go try Donna Leon or someone.

Awful.

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Being an Andrew Gross fan…

This would be his fifth title that I have enjoyed. Although it dragged and was a bit repetitive in spots, the story held my interest and the narrator expressed the various character voices quite convincingly. I want more, but the one thing that I absolutely hated… whose idea was it to randomly include bass heavy symphonic dramatic musical interludes? They are unnecessary and quite annoying especially as they run into and overbear onto the story dialogue. I would edit those out. But fir now, I am onto my next Andrew Gross Audible selection.

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  • 03-05-22

Poorly written and repetitive

I struggled with the overall rating because the narrator was not bad, she just didn’t have much to work with. The plot of this book is so obvious that it seems like the author had a checklist of suspense/romance cliches and, believe me, he hit every one. I would never read another book by this author.

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Chapter numbering has issues

The chapter numbers do not correspond to the numbers in the book. The app lists 22 chapters but the book has 105 so trying to sync this audible with reading is very difficult

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