
The Caretaker
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Narrado por:
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Sam Dastor
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A. X. Ahmad
A gripping, evocative thriller about a disgraced Sikh Indian Army captain who works as the caretaker for a U.S. Senator’s Martha's Vineyard estate, and becomes ensnared in the Senator's shadowy world.
Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, now lives on Martha’s Vineyard, and works as a caretaker for the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, Ranjit needs a place to stay, and illegally moves his family into an empty, luxurious vacation home belonging to an African American Senator. Ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the Senator’s wife, and focuses on providing for his family. But one night, their idyll is shattered when mysterious armed men break into the house, searching for an antique porcelain doll. Forced to flee, Ranjit is hunted by unknown forces, and becomes drawn into the Senator’s shadowy world. To save his family and solve the mystery of the doll, he must join forces with Anna, who has her own dark secrets. As he battles to save his family, Ranjit’s painful past resurfaces, and he must finally confront the hidden event that destroyed his Army career - and forced him to leave India.
Tightly plotted, action-packed, smart, and surprisingly moving, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker takes us from the desperate world of migrant workers to the elite African American community of Martha’s Vineyard, and a secret high-altitude war between India and Pakistan.
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Great book, excellently read!
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I did not care for the ending. It felt like a "lead in" for the next book. If a writer is good, they don't need to do this, each book can stand on it's own.
OK, just OK
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Would you try another book from A. X. Ahmad and/or Sam Dastor?
Sam Dastor is an EXCELLENT narrator!!! His "India" accent in Keating's Inspector Gothe series made me look for other books which he narrates. While he hold true to his abilities, this book itself lacks the ability to hold my interest. Predictable situations where the Handyman is alone with the rich housewife... confrontational exchanges with the local bigiots and bad-boys... and a slow start, with little action, made me put it down and go on to something else.Again whith the unnecessary language and sex
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Would you try another book from A. X. Ahmad and/or Sam Dastor?
NoHas The Caretaker turned you off from other books in this genre?
NoHow could the performance have been better?
The reader is an East Indian gentleman. His "voices" were difficult to distinguish amongst characters.What character would you cut from The Caretaker?
The so-called hero was a disappointing man, unfaithful to his wife for no good reason - yet we were meant to sympathize with this relationship. The two main criminal characters were not dealt with adequately in the wrap up. Aspects of characters - painstakingly described, such as the 7 year old daughter wanting to be a lawyer were not tied up at the end. If this is the first of a series, the author suspended his characters and story at a poorly chosen point in time and plot. Altogether, weak and disappointing.Weak and disappointing
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Disappointing in every way
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