The Siege

Alan Gregory, Book 17

By: Stephen White

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students - including the sons of both the secretary of the army and newest Supreme Court justice - may have gone missing. Kidnapping? Terrorism? The authorities aren't sure. But the high-profile disappearances draw the attention of the CIA...

and the FBI's vaunted Hostage Rescue Team. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he is quickly snared by an unlikely pair of Feds: FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake.
Sam, Poe, and Dee join together, desperately trying to solve the riddle of what is going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of campus. The clock is pounding in their ears. The unknown enemy is playing by no known rules...is making no demands...is refusing to communicate with the hostage negotiator...is somehow anticipating every FBI move...is completely unconcerned about getting away...

And...is sending students, one by one, out of the building's front door to die.

©2009 Stephen White (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Sam Purdy “The Siege”

Exciting! The story keeps you on the edge of your seat. Purdy has been a favorite character of the Dr Gregory series. I hope there will be more to come of Sam Purdy.

One of his best

Really liked that Sam instead of Allen was the main character in this one. It was also very exciting. Kept me riveted throughout.

Not an Alan Greggory Book

Would you listen to The Siege again? Why?

Yes, it was entertaining

What other book might you compare The Siege to and why?

In line with the rest of the series and keeps you guessing

For the first time, I couldn't finish listening

I had to stop listening to this book halfway through. It's the first time I've done that. I don't know what possessed Dick Hill to make the choices he did in his narration, but it was unbearably ponderous and articulated with a bizarre sameness, no matter which region a character was supposed to be from. Purdy sounds as if he ended up in Minnesota by way of New York. Poe's accent is simply a toned-down version of Purdy's. I don't know if Hill thinks this quirk of speech is characteristic of law enforcement generally (although he couldn't seem to break out of these speech patterns for any of the characters), but after over seven hours of it, I was ready to jump out of my skin.

I listened to clips of some of the other books Dick Hill narrates, and he's clearly capable of making entirely different choices.

I don't feel as if I've missed much. The book's premise has a lot of promise, but the first half meanders among the personal woes of angst-ridden cops, with little plot development.

A boring soap opera!

Not even Dick Hill's great voice could help this boring soap opera! Don't waste your money or time on this book.
The story is disjointed and meandering...made no sense.

disappointing

I must agree, a soap opera, thank goodness for fast forward.The protagonist(s)did nothing (little) that altered the outcome. flawed dependent whiny protagonists are not my cup of tea. All they did was understand what the bad guys motives were before anyone else. Very good concept and plot, if cut back on the whining, and worked on the ending some, it could have been a very good story.

Hunh!!!??

Wacky story line and hopelessly poor reader!

Disappointed

This was the worse of Stephen White’s books. I usually love his books, not so this time.