The Delta Devlin Collection, Books 1-3

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Tom Taylorson, Robin Eller

Length: 30 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

For the first time—in honor of the late Matthew Mather, the master of technothrillers—all three titles in the exhilarating Delta Devlin series are now available in a discounted box set.

With a new foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith, this is a series worth losing your head over.

Book 1: The Dreaming Tree

After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he’s one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can—visions created by a mutation to her eyes—and meeting Royce sets off an unraveling chain of events …

Book 2: Meet Your Maker

Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex–KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building. As her father falls into a mysterious coma, Devlin follows Korshunov and infamous tech wunderkind Lenny Bondar into the underworld of Eastern Europe. There, her worst nightmares materialize from the darkness.

Book 3: Out of Time

Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and newly promoted Marshal Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate. At the same time, a dead body appears on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City—one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career. As events in the present collide in a tangle of secrets and lies, Delta cannot trust anyone—even her family and loved ones.

©2019, 2020, 2021 Matthew Mather (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

I have never listened to a Tecnothriller before

I rather enjoyed listening to the Delta collection. I was especially intrigued with “Meet Your Maker”. So exciting because I could truly see what has been happening in our world and how evil always seems to take a great invention and turn it into something bad. I recommend these books for entertainment and enlightenment to my family and friends.

Can you figure it out

Great series with 3 unique story lines. Great character arcs and connections that grow as the series goes on.

Tons of clues if you pay attention. Can you figure out the ending or will you be led astray.

It’s a shame there won’t be more.

A decent “free” listen

This is a hard one to review. I listened to the whole trilogy, so I obviously didn’t dislike it. However a pattern emerged as I went through the collection.

The author makes some interesting reaches into science and technology but really only dabbles in the details. If you’re a reader that likes to get into the nuts and bolts of those topics you will be disappointed. It’s more of a surface inclusion of those elements into “detective stories”.

There’s also a lot of complexity that is not foreshadowed and not even depicted in the story, as evidenced by the number of soliloquies and personal reflections of various characters where they’re just dumping information and “explaining things“. I think the last book ended with maybe 30 minutes of this. that’s a lot of extra context/effort to explain things away. (As if the publisher suggested a rewrite but they did the really detailed epilogue instead.)

Performance is good - I’d have to reach hard for criticisms so I’ll leave it there.

And I don’t mean to sound pompous or anything of the sort. But these stories for me were like having sushi for dinner. It tastes good while you’re eating it but 30 minutes later you’re hungry and you realize the meal didn’t give you what you needed.