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The Secret of Fire 5

By: Jack Olsen
Narrated by: Kevin Sidenstricker
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Fire 5 is a special roving unit which comes to the aid of other fire companies that run into trouble all over the city. Its story is told by one of the men of the unit, Charly Sprockett, and from the very first scene Jack Olsen hooks the listener with his remarkable ability to write dialogue that rings true and to create characters who jump to life.

We live with the men in the station, take drills with them, hear them swap funny stories, marital woes and sexual adventures. We watch them razz the probies, initiate their first fireperson, Lulu Ann Tompkins, and unite in common hatred of their tyrannical new battalion chief, H. Walker Slater. We see them crawl through burning buildings, dragging out people trapped within. We join the hilarity when they come to the rescue of a 400-pound woman who gets stuck in her bathtub, and we root for Charly as he climbs out on an overpass over a freeway to talk a desperate young girl out of leaping to her death.

But beneath the ribald humor lies an urgent suspense story. Somewhere in the city lurks the firefighter's deadliest enemy - a torch - a vicious arsonist who has been pouring gasoline over derelicts and setting them aflame. Funny, touching, exciting, true, The Secret of Fire 5 seems headed for certain success.

©2015 Jack Olsen (P)2015 Gregg Olsen

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Wonderful on every front.

It's not often you hear a book you can give a rating of five stars all around. Jack Olsen is always good. Kevin Sidenstricker is a new name to me. He was fantastic as the narrator. I will look for more books by these two me working as a team.

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I am a Jack Olsen fan but........

I have really enjoyed Jack Olsens true crime work. This one Not so much. I was disappointed from the start and gave up about 1/4 of the way in. A week or so later I thought I would try again and it did not take long before I gave up a second and final time. it takes a real stinker for me to not power through but I just can't do it!

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