In the Forest of the Night

De: Ron Faust

Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies

An idealistic American doctor is imprisoned and sentenced to death in a corrupt Central American country. Now he must figure out a means of escape and rescue his beautiful wife, who has also been taken hostage - and is being tortured beyond imagination.

Trapped in a jail cell in a troubled Central American republic, Martin Springer, an idealistic U.S. volunteer doctor, faces execution. His "crime": having witnessed the massacre of an entire village by government forces. His beautiful and determined wife, Katherine, arrives in the country with money in hand to try and save him, but she too is arrested. Her crime: Resisting the advances of General Vaca, the sadistic head of the secret police. Her punishment: imprisonment and degradation in a low-class brothel. When word of his wife’s plight reaches Springer, somehow he must escape from his dungeon cell, find his wife and rescue her, and kill her tormentors and in the process shed some of his humanitarianism and take on some of the brutality of his captors.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"A gripping, powerful story." (The New York Times)
"A writer of enormous talent, a stylist to admire and a storyteller of great power." (Scott Turow)
"Faust writes beautifully…he reminds you of Hemingway and Peter Matthiessen….Faust has it all: lyrical prose, complex characters and provocative plots." (Booklist) "Faust’s clear, unadorned prose and his deft, pure characterization ring with the force of Hemingway or Graham Greene." (Publishers Weekly)

By far The Worst Ron Faust's Book I've heard.

I just wanted it over. Details of how Katherine was raped in the whore house, were too rough for me. Also when Martin escaped, but the government would not him leave because the rebels had his passport, did not sound realistic.

Unleashed the reader’s emotions

Very good story at times with excellent descriptions but at times some of those descriptions stood in the way of the story.

took awhile

first couple of hours into the book and it was fairly dull for me. but i stuck with it and it became interesting. if not an audio book I would have set it aside. but overall, from the middle on to the end it redemned itself.

Good but dark story

I enjoyed the drama but the trauma the wife endured was hard to read when she refused to get counseling to recover from the PTSD.

Stupid story !

This has to be the funny story I have heard in a.long time. It was almost painful to listen too. The narrator was pretty bad also.

Long, tedious, messy hard to follow

I tried and tried and tried to enjoy this book by one of my favorite authors. the plot was fragmented chaotic and never really developed any cohesion. not really up to par for this author can't really complain though because it was a free selection other than that I want my time back. entirely forgettable skip this one.