A Promise to Kill Volume 2

A Clyde Barr Novel

De: Erik Storey

Narrado por: Pete Simonelli

Clyde Barr returns in “one of the best thrillers of the year” (The Washington Times) that “promises intense, edge-of-the-seat excitement to anyone who picks it up” (Nelson DeMille).

Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But when he runs across an elderly sick man—a Ute Indian from a nearby reservation—Clyde’s dream of solitude is quickly dashed.

On the reservation, Clyde finds the old man’s daughter, Lawana, as well as a group of menacing bikers called the Reapers running wild in the economically depressed, half-abandoned village. Gripped by the desire to do good in a bleak world, Clyde offers to stay on Lawana’s ranch to help out until her father is released from the hospital. He controls himself around the bikers, even when he sees them harass a few Native American women—but when the Reapers attack a local boy Clyde has to do something. As tensions rise between the locals and the Reapers, Clyde’s efforts to protect the reservation become a fight for his and Lawana’s lives. And then the stakes ratchet up even more.

A Promise to Kill is the edge-of-the-seat sequel to Nothing Short of Dying that “readers will have a hard time putting…down” (Publishers Weekly).

good story line-- good writer

I like that he left in the end-- better that way. "I need to be somewhere else"

Well Executed Modern Western

I love modern westerns, and this hit the spot perfectly. No real surprises, just did exactly what I wanted it to with a story that kept me interested, well written characters that I did care about, and as always Pete Simonelli sounded great and performed wonderfully.

A wonderful desert thriller

A damn good story, with an incredible narrator, and a wonderful main character, A Promise to Kill sees Clyde Barr, lost as ever, pulled into something much larger than anything he's ever dealt with before. While A Promise to Kill ditches the crime fiction grittiness at the heart of the first book in the series and exchanges it for a more standard thriller concept, Barr proves he has equally strong footing in both worlds. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what Barr does next.

Goes from bad to mind numbing!

Immediately prior I listened to Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby which is a true five star book but A Promise to Kill is just insultingly bad.

Ex military loner vigilante takes on the heinous bad guys when nobody else will help. That’s the story. Cliche to the max.

Only reason I finished is Pete Simonelli is an above average narrator.