The Eliminator Series, Books 1-3

By: Mike Ryan

Narrated by: Adam Gold, Brian Hutchison

Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

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The Fallen: Detective Brett Jacobs is a good cop. But he's soon going to have his limits tested. After he finishes an undercover assignment that leads to the arrest of a major crime boss, he’ll find out just how dirty the bad guys play. Jacobs realizes that in order to beat an organization like this, he has to fight fire with fire. Will he throw his badge away to become a one-man wrecking crew? Or will he try to work within the confines of the law? One thing’s for certain, the men he’s going up against have severely underestimated the lengths that he’ll go to. And he’ll stop at nothing in order to extract his revenge.

The Payback: Rich Mallette is in prison, but he’s still calling the shots. Brett Jacobs may have taken out some of his men, but he’s not ready to throw in the towel just yet. He’s still got a few things up his sleeve for the former detective, one of which is another heinous act aimed to destroy what’s left of Jacobs’ soul.While Jacobs battles more of Mallette’s Maulers, he learns the identity of the second man who was with Frazier when his family was killed. It will culminate in Jacobs and Mallette finally meeting face to face for the first time since Mallette ordered the hit on Jacobs’ family.

The Reprisal: Frustrated that his organization is crumbling while he’s in prison, Mallette starts getting desperate. He orders the kidnapping of the kids of Jacobs’ brother. Fearful that the kids might end up like the rest of his family, Jacobs frantically searches the city to find them before they end up in the cemetery. With time growing short, and Jacobs knowing that his enemy is willing to do the unthinkable, Jacobs enlists the help of unlikely allies in order to find them before it’s too late. Will Jacobs find them before Mallette’s men do the horrific act? Or will Jacobs get there too late and cause his pain and suffering to go to even lower proportions?

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Love this series too!

I have become Mike Ryan's biggest fan in the past couple months. Can't get enough of his series. I thin I've found my most favorite character so far...Eddie Franks is a blast! Canr wait to start the next box set!

Poor naration

The primary narrator had such a singsongy voice that i fell asleep gladly and the book finished while I was asleep. Got the gist and it wasn’t a bad story. Peace ✌🏻

Revenge as a motivation

You could skip the first 4 chapters. His wife and children are killed, he is out for revenge. Liked Ryan's other series better.

not an assault weapon

I like everything except for the constant use of the word assault weapon. everybody that missed English class and grammar assault, is a verb or an adjective is not a noun it's not a person place or thing it is an action therefore it cannot be a weapon . as for an AR-15. anybody can look this up, the company who made that gun is ArmaLite (A)Rifles(R) I wish people would stop politicizing a word or a tool to make it scary, it's not as scary as the person who's angry enough to aim it at innocent people because it is an inanimate object

Not a silencer. But trying to be.

While the story line isn’t bad, it’s not as good as the silencer series. I will listen to the next set.

Entertaining book

This is a very entertaining book very similar to the silencer.
He has similar characters and plots. Overall very good.

Hard to listen to!

Storyline was good, narrator of book 1 & 2 was difficult to listen to. He pitched up at the end of each sentence.

Not so good..

I've read the first book in this 3 book series but now I'm going to stop for a while. I don't think I like Brett Jacobs at all. I can see him wanted to kill those who killed his family but now he's killing other criminals and stealing their guns and money. I don't know if I'll ever finish this but I'll hold onto it instead of shelving it away.

Also, you're "playing" with killers and gangsters here and no one uses the word "f**k." And sh*t was used 4 times? THAT is NOT going to happen. That does make the book kinda boring and silly. Make it real or don't write about these kind of people.

As for the narration: Adam Gold was the MAIN reason I got this set of books. He did all the series about Jack Winchester and I loved every book there was in it. I really hated to see it end. So, when I saw this set I jumped at it because of him. Then I saw that he was only doing the first 2 books then the third book was being read by someone else. That's not good.

Ehhhhhh

Not a huge fan of the narrator!!! The high pitch is not for me especially when it is random . When listening to audiobooks narration is a huge deal for me. Not a fan but stuck it out for the storyline

badly written revenge porn

I forced myself to make it through book one. started book two but could not finish. I take my money seriously and normally will power through titles that have some issues. just couldn't do it. only audiobook purchase I have ever regretted

This is as formulaic as books get. it is beyond simple, with no sub plot or subtext. Some of it sounds as if written by AI, maybe it was and I missed seeing that in the description.

the cardinal sin of writing is to bore the reader. this absolutely violates that day one. This plot is predictable and the main. character is a badly done cardboard cutout . not only did I not care about him, I found .myself rooting against him.

worse the ex cop is actually stupid, and N inconsiderate jerk. The secondary character is a little better for a while, until he. blinly goes along with this crazy scheme for absolutely no reason, even putting himself in jeopardy legally and physically.

I don't mind suspending reality, it is kinda why I read, but this ...the guy does nothing to conceal his identity and just barges ahead, but never takes a lump, or gets close to getting caught. he is of course a perfect shot, meanwhile the bad guys can't hit the broadside of a cow. Assuming they even get a shot, they are so busy being the absolute worst criminals evers put on paper.

the cops look stupid, the criminals look like clowns, and the main character is the only person In the universe.

the whole thing is just bland revenge porn. do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

Also the guy reading has a strange vocal style in how he overemphasizes ONE word in a sentence. The man picked up the KNIFE. etc... gotta wonder if he was just trying to make a really bad story exciting? it didn't work. actually hard to listen to.