Fear the Wolf

De: James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Narrado por: Ellen Archer

Best-selling author James Patterson and award-winning sportswriter Mike Lupica team up to launch this power-family football thriller, a pre-game for their next blockbuster, The House of Wolves.

Meet the Wolf. Joe Wolf. He’s the head of a multibillion-dollar empire—a newspaper, a holding company, a football team—and the head of a family that puts King Lear to shame.

His empire shows signs of crumbling when he’s approached with an “offer” to sell. It’s clear from the start that Joe is going to pay the ultimate price—and maybe more—if he refuses.

©2022 James Patterson Entertainment, LLC (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC

excellent book!, kept my interest, good plot.

awesome narrator, suspenseful. A good read. Held my interest. Read today! You'll be glad you did!

Preview to the book, not that interesting

A little bummed. I've been a fan of James Patterson since I was younger and started the Maximum Ride books (the first three), and have read a great many of his books since then. This one, regrettably, did not catch my interest at all. If you are into football, or storylines being told from the perspective of a giant ***** (many expletive nouns would easily fit there, so take your pick), then perhaps you will like it. And, hopefully, the rest of the actual book is better than this except. I do not own to devote any more time to it to find out though.

Very Nice Set Up

Fear the Wolf by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
1h 14m narrated by Ellen Archer
House of Wolves #0.5

Genre: Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Audiobook, Sports > Sports

Featuring: San Francisco, California; Multi-billion Empire, Extortion Football Team, Audible Originals

Rating as a movie: R for adult content

My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My thoughts: I have read a few of these, find-out-what-happens-next prequel-novellas. Most of them I don't discover until after I read the novel and after reading I'm glad I skipped as the preview gave major spoilers for the novel, like A Witness to a Trial and The Whistler. In this case, I'm glad I read it, there is no major spoiler unless the bad guys are revealed near the middle or end of the novel. As far as I can tell this does exactly what it's supposed to do, set up the novel. I was a little disappointed as reading the first few lines of the blurb for The House of Wolves gave away the ending to this story, but it was still a good ride.

Recommend to others?: Yes. This is a nice little story if you have Audible.

Short and left asking questions

Not much of a mystery of crime
That’s what I was expecting but it’s not what I got

Awesome! Thank you for the intro story

I loved the opportunity to learn more about the story's premise and characters. There's a million ways the next book could be awesome and I'm now excited to find out which!

Intriguing

I love most James Patterson books. The description of this one peaked my interest because it involved football and a female character that knows ore about the game than her siblings. I’m seriously intrigued and about to start the next one.

MEH - IMPRESSED AND NOT IMPRESSED...

Character writing is fine, and narration is good. I guess I'm just a little worn-out on tough guy leader/ bosses with big words who are failing in the process. Guess I am reminded of the idiot Joe in the White House now who tries to act tough, but should be in an old folks home - my opinion. He has a lousy son, too!

Has an actual story been written for this? Not sure I'd want to spend a credit on it.

GRADE: B

Teaser

Extremely short cliffhanger novella. An unknown person is going to kill the head of a sports team. That’s it. You have to buy the next book to find out who wants him dead and if he is dead

Good start so far

Story is a little outside my usual, but this definitely made me want to listen to the whole book.

Great beginnings!

Interesting but some confusion on main characters. I will definitely read the book James Patterson is one of my favs.