Desperate Times

De: Nicholas Antinozzi

Narrado por: Joe Cirillo

Despite all the warning bells, Black Friday arrives as a devastating tidal wave that completely destroys our fragile economy in a single day. There is panic in the streets as banks close their doors, seemingly forever, at noon. Store shelves are swept bare and the gas pumps soon run dry. Jimmy Logan watches in disbelief as his world crumbles before his eyes. Luckily, he has friends who have planned ahead for this nightmarish scenario and he joins up with a group who plan to ride the storm out in northern Minnesota. Some of their group will be dead before the sun sets.

Jimmy soon finds himself in the battle of his life. The world changes in a single day and there seems to be no going back. People want what they have and they are willing to do anything, even kill, to get it. The government responds to the crisis by using the National Guard to round up the population and to secure them in relocation camps. Those who resist are shot.

This is Jimmy's story, but the premise might have been torn from today's headlines. The diverse group of people in this story could be your neighbors; your relatives, and this is a very realistic look at what the future might hold for all of us. What would you do to feed your family if you suddenly found that your life savings was as worthless as yesterday's newspaper? How far would you go to protect what you had, in case it was all that stood between you and starvation? Desperate Times explores these questions from Jimmy's point of view, the result is a thought-provoking story that may change the way you look at the world.

©2010 Nicholas Antinozzi (P)2012 Nicholas Antinozzi

Relevant and Riveting

What did you like best about this story?

This book is fast-paced and full of action.

What about Joe Cirillo’s performance did you like?

Joe has a great voice. I'm looking forward to hearing him again.

Horrible Narrator

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He over does it when he's narrating characters other than the main one. He reads the book in a childish way and adds inflection in the wrong way. It adds excitement or apprehension to the character when there shouldn't be. It's not fluid. Very hard to listen...feel like I listening to a Japanese cartoon.

The narration is so bad it's funny.

The storyline is really over the top. I realize that it's fiction but a story has to be a bit more believable

The narrator when he does female voices sounds like a ten your old having a tantrum. If there was a better narrator I may have listened to book 2.

Great Book now we need the sequel on audio

Have you listened to any of Joe Cirillo’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

He does a pretty good job with the story, he is great with male voices, but his female voices suck

Any additional comments?

Great story, kept me listening and I found it hard to stop

Interesting story can't wait for the follow up[s]!

This is the first time I've listened to this author and found I liked the story and the characters, most where very much real life in my experience. The narrator was so so however, he makes for a bad women otherwise still very easy to listen to and get into it.
I'm looking forward to the next 2 in the series, hopefully soon.