Death Benefit

Mr. Guidall always differentiates his characters so well that you know who is speaking without the tags. His delivery is relaxed, unaffected, and very intelligible. He is my favorite narrator.

The story is very engaging until it ends, very abruptly. It is so bad that it spoils the book.

Huge fan of Robin Cook and LUV George Guidall. The story premise somewhat reminded me of Chromosone 6 with genegically enginered organs, the mob and headstrong young scientist ready to crack open the vault and expose the entire endgame. Whilke I enjoyed the story, the productions issues were continious.

The story and performance by George Guidall were wonderful! The engineering quality on this one is pretty bad (see the additional comments section below).

He brought life to the characters in a way I hadn't imagined when I originally read the novel.

I read other reviews and saw the comments about the engineering quality on this and figured it might not be as bad as described. It was sadly, worse. Chapters would end mid-word and a new one begin, not once but nearly two dozen times. I often wondered if I'd missed something as the new chapter began. I'm not sure where the quality control went on this one.

Engineering disaster. Many chapters ended abruptly and ran into the beginning of the next chapter - very annoying.

yes and no. Love Robin Cook books but it was hard to continue listening due to the narrators delivery. He finishes his sentences at warp speed which gives an impression that he is just trying to get through the job

Different narrator. this one is sorely lacking in delivery

no

I have read all of Cook's novels over the years, and thoroughly enjoyed almost all of them, but in a couple of his most recent ones he has seemed off form. I almost didn't bother with this one, but i'm glad i did. Cook is back to his classic style of having medical students discovering something underhanded and battling the evil establishment.
The story was compelling all the way through. He lost me a bit in the financial stuff, but i could follow the gist of it. I liked the young med students but was glad he brought back Jack and Laurie further on.
George Guidell is synonymous with Robin Cook to me. As soon as i hear his voice it's like an old friend.
The only reason i didn't give this book 5 stars is because I agree with the reviewers who said it ended rather abruptly and implausibly. I think the wrap-up could have been done better.

Story was pretty good, but ends abruptly. George Guidall is wonderful as usual, but the engineering is awful.I liked the way the author wove in the interesting medical examiners, Jack and Lori, from previous novels. I would love for these characters to appear together in a future novel.

Weird that the synopsis on Audible names the characters as Natalie and Ronald when the characters are Pia and George. In addition, George does not work on the diabetes project as described.......

I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT. THIS WAS A REAL SUSPENSE THRILLER AND I LEARNED MUCH.

THE EXPLANATION OF THE MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS.

HE DID VERY WELL.

CAUGHT ME IN THE FIRST CHAPTER WHICH MOST AUTHORS SOMETIMES FAIL TO DO.

I would not, I did not particularly like the narrator's voice.

The storyline was interesting and provided a good suspense. I would have liked to have a little more meat on the bone when the plot thickened. It seemed a little hastily concluded to me.

Probably not.

No extreme reaction but sustained interest.