The Plantation

Payne & Jones, Book 1

By: Chris Kuzneski

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

The first to disappear is a ski instructor in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Hours later, a pregnant woman is abducted from a crowded hospital. Two places, two incidents, a single motive. And so it begins....

One by one, in cities across America, people of all ages are taken from their homes, their cars, their lives. But these aren't random kidnappings. They're crimes of passion, planned and researched years in advance with a singular objective in mind: Revenge.

Ariane Walker is one of the victims, dragged from her apartment with few clues to follow. The police said there's little they can do for her, but that isn't good enough for her boyfriend, Jonathon Payne.

With the help of his best friend, Payne gives chase, hoping a tip about New Orleans somehow pays off. Together, the duo slowly uncovers the mystery of Ariane's abduction and the shocking truth behind the South's most violent secret: The Plantation.

©2009 Chris Kuzneski (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

" The Plantation is a rip-roaring page-turner. No reader will easily forget it." (James Patterson)
"Excellent.... High stakes, fast action, vibrant characters, and a very, very original plot concept. Not to be missed!" (Lee Child)

Are you a liberal who suffers from “white guilt”?

Then this book is for you!! I got this book because I love Dick Hill and I live in the New Orleans area. Wow is this book terrible! There are so many issues with this book I don’t even know where to start but here’s just a couple.
1- The protagonists are super-special forces a’la Mitch Rapp, Evan Smoak, Court Gentry but they go into battle with weapons they got from someone they barely know and they never got around to test firing them to make sure they worked?
2- The Fourth of July is not about personal freedom like the “antagonist”, and I say that sarcastically because the author makes him as sympathetic as possible, preaches in his speech to the white prisoners, it’s about independence as a nation from the British Empire.
Liberals of this generation seem to think that the United States created slavery. Slavery has been around since the beginnings of human civilization but the United States is the first to abolish it and I’ll be damned if I’m shamed just because I was born white by a generation that’s had it better than any in the history of the world! I will be returning this book….sorry Dick Hill!

not good

Dick Hill is one of my favorites however I couldn't wait for this one to end. The story is preposterous and the characters too.

Good thing I listened to his other books first

I loved the Sword of God and The Lost Throne. This book, however, too gratuitously describes the torture and the brutality and masochism of the antagonists. I think it is easy to create tension by raising the spector of violence agaist women and children.

Doesn't get any worse

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Even the master dick hill couldn't bring this one to life. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt since this is the authors first book. If the second one is the same it's over.

What could Chris Kuzneski have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

You should've written like an adult not like a 14-year-old with an imagination.

What does Dick Hill bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Dick Hill salvaged what he could if it hadn't been for him I would not of gotten past the first hour.

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

None whatsoever