Rollback

De: Michael C. Grumley

Narrado por: Scott Brick

Under a light rain, Mike Mansfield stands stoically beneath a large elm tree, waiting patiently for the person he has been searching for. Burly and in his mid-fifties, Mansfield was what some might call chaotically good—a person with an unshakable sense of right and wrong, and a very unique brand of justice.

However, what Mansfield doesn’t know is that after years of working in the shadows, someone has now found him. And they have been watching Mansfield for some time.

That person is David Bruni. A man with both the money and opportunity to do something truly astonishing with modern technology. He too has been working in secret … to build a supercomputer capable of ‘stitching’ together the billions of pictures taken every day to create snapshots of the world at any given time.

The capability proves to be extraordinary, and one that has coincidentally revealed to Bruni the secret behind Mike Mansfield’s enigmatic success at finding people no one else can. A well-kept secret not even Bruni would have expected.

Yet it’s not until a third critical piece appears, a young INTERPOL agent named Leslie Salazar, that Bruni’s true reason for creating his incredible system finally becomes clear.

For years no one had any idea what Bruni was up to … and that was exactly the way he wanted it.

©2025 Michael C. Grumley (P)2025 Recorded Books

Exciting!

Another Grumley series beginning that is thought provoking and full of exciting twists and great characters! Looking forward to the next story.

Keep Rolling Forward, Michael Grumley!

Rollback is great fun: exciting, interesting, 'tightly' written and one of Michael Grumley's very best! The underlying technical elements of the plot are easily plausible for most of us - most of us can relate to pixels via cameras, mobile phones and all manner of imaging technologies present in our daily lives. The plot moves forward at a 'must keep on listening' pace and encourages the listener to dive into and accept the premise of captured images as a kind of time machine. Probably most readers experience that by going through digital or hardcopy photos that date back many years. It's a very clever basis for establishing the reality of Rollback's story! The main character's viewpoint that taking the law into one's own hands is 'true' justice is unsettling and a sub-theme that demands consideration. Idea-wrestling is the mark of a worthwhile book. The listener is compelled to think as well as listen, and Grumley's writing enables such engagement. At times the narrator's enthusiasm overpowers some of the subtleties that Grumley has so deftly included in character development or plot or character-to-character conversations but nothing that genuinely distracts from enjoying the book.

Looking forward to the next Michael Grumley book on audible!!

Fantastic as always!

A great book as always. A surprising different take on the technology aspect. Looking forward to book 2. Enjoyed as always Scott Brick the best narrator ever.

The story, and the way it was written

Michael Grumley, writes with reality, and fiction so well this story was so well written, it kept me on the edge of my seat for the whole story, and the preview for Mirage, has left me holding my breath for the realase, Thank You so much for Your imanigation and facts.

Helluva Start

This is going to be a banger of a series… Great plot and pacing, not to mention some superbly offbeat characters…

Fresh and Riveting

Really enjoyed the unique plot line and believability of the action. The deep seated purpose dragging imperfect heroes was readily identifiable at a very personal level. Narration was excellent but c the story was even better. Highly recommend.

Great plot

Took a little bit to warm up to the main character, but after that was great Reed and great character development.

The story line was original and poignant, lots of twists and turns; so good!

If I could give this book a ten star rating, I would - fantastic story and as always, Scott Brick was an amazing narrator; can’t wait for Book #2!

Great story. great narrator

michael grumley is one of my favorite authors. I have been waiting for a new series and this one sounds as though it's going to be a great one.