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- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- De Andrew Pollack en 01-17-14
De: F. Paul Wilson
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Rules of Prey
- A Lucas Davenport Novel
- De: John Sandford
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare, is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.
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I love this series
- De Don Gilbert en 08-31-11
De: John Sandford
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Black Fridays
- De: Michael Sears
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects. Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed. But it’s not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, "the Kid", from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him.
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I enjoyed it. I loved the end!
- De John en 05-16-14
De: Michael Sears
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Compelling Evidence & Prime Witness
- 2-in-1 Edition, Paul Madriani Books 1 and 2
- De: Steve Martini
- Narrado por: Joe Mantegna
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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Compelling Evidence Paul Madriani was once a promising associate with the prestigious Potter, Skarpellos law firm, co-founded by his mentor, Ben Potter. But after a scandalous affair with Ben's wife, Talia, Paul left the firm to begin a brilliant career as a criminal defense attorney. Ben's impeccable reputation has made him a leading candidate for the Supreme Court, until he is found dead on the eve of the nomination, and Talia becomes the prime suspect.
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Terrible
- De LS1015 en 04-08-19
De: Steve Martini
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A Tap on the Window
- De: Linwood Barclay
- Narrado por: Mark Zeisler
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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International best-selling author Linwood Barclay delivers pulse-pounding suspense that puts him among the masters of the genre. A Tap on the Window finds private investigator Cal Weaver making an ill-advised decision to pick up a young female hitchhiker who reminds him of his dead son. But something is off about the girl, and Cal is soon drawn into a host of nightmarish secrets.
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5 Stars for Tap on the Window
- De shelley en 04-16-14
De: Linwood Barclay
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The Ritual Bath
- The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
- De: Faye Kellerman
- Narrado por: Mitchell Greenberg
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
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Good Read
- De Eva Gannon en 08-21-08
De: Faye Kellerman
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Hunter
- A Thriller
- De: Robert Bidinotto
- Narrado por: Conor Hall
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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From its first moments, Hunter takes you on a nonstop thrill ride: from the top floor of the CIA, to the marbled corridors of Capitol Hill...from the posh hotels of downtown Washington, to the city's mean, violent streets. It introduces a colorful new hero for our time - and a dazzling heroine every bit his equal. A spy mystery...a crime thriller...a passionate romance: Hunter is a genre-bending novel unlike any you've read. Deviously plotted, filled with vivid characters, and propelled at a breakneck pace.
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Best Vigilante Story since Without Remorse
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 04-16-16
De: Robert Bidinotto
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Faces of the Gone
- Carter Ross, Book 1
- De: Brad Parks
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to the scene, Carter learns that the four victims - an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a hustler, and a mama's boy - came from different parts of the city and didn't seem to know one another.
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Wish Brad Parks were more prolific!!!!
- De shelley en 02-16-18
De: Brad Parks
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Mistress of Justice
- De: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.
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Pathetic! I wasted a credit!
- De Wayne en 06-28-18
De: Jeffery Deaver
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Cold Frame
- De: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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In Cold Frame, the dramatic new thriller by P. T. Deutermann, a secret committee of government and civilian officials maintains a list known as the Kill List, which targets overseas threats to America for termination. When a senior bureaucrat who is part of the Kill List process dies in Washington under mysterious circumstances that include a beautiful woman, a glass of wine, and a bouquet of flowers, Metro detective Av Smith is tasked to investigate.
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Left me cold!
- De Allen Anthony en 12-22-15
De: P. T. Deutermann
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Cool idea. Tediously told.
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William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?
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A classic.
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime - they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against.
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Meh.
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The artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath 40 more feet of sand. The Navy's efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it - and set in motion a scientific race to retrieve it, to discover just what it is and where it came from. Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit they've tried on it and will not budge an inch. It resists every effort to breach it - or communicate with it.
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Loved it!
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Buying Time
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More even than space travel, the Stileman Process has altered 21st-century life. The most complex of medical miracles, it ensures that every 10 years or so, the ailing aging body can be restored to youthful vigour and health. There's a catch, of course: the cost. Every 10 years or so, you have to come up with £1,000,000 minimum to repeat the procedure or die. For Dallas Barr, one of the oldest men on earth, it's that time again. While casting around desperately for his next essential £1,000,000, he meets Maria, a woman from a previous life, and makes two major discoveries.
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Highly Recommend
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A classic.
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Meh.
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The artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath 40 more feet of sand. The Navy's efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it - and set in motion a scientific race to retrieve it, to discover just what it is and where it came from. Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit they've tried on it and will not budge an inch. It resists every effort to breach it - or communicate with it.
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Loved it!
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Great book, distracting narration
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Historical fiction
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None So Blind
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From the spine-tingling account of an intergalactic poacher’s rite of passage to an erotic and ultimately uplifting modern fable of inner scars and otherworldly transformation, here are 15 remarkable tales, including the classic novella The Hemingway Hoax. These are stories that sing with a unique and haunting voice—stories of war's monsters, of brutal art and lost stars, and a brief, miraculous moment called childhood, when a young girl can actually fly.
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Star Soldiers
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Only as interstellar mercenaries can humans go to the stars; the aliens who already dominate the galaxy allow no other recourse. But when Swordsman Third Class Kana Karr and his comrades-in-arms are betrayed and abandoned on a hostile world by their alien masters, the warriors from Earth begin a desperate but glorious march across a planet whose every sword is against them. Their actions may doom humanity's future...or lead the way to an empire of their own!
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Star Guard, and Star Rangers/Last Planet
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When the World Shook
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Michael Page
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When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years! One of the awakened sleepers, Lord Oro, is the last of the Sons of Wisdom, a superior race who'd relied on their advanced technology to subjugate the planet's lesser peoples. The other Atlantean is Oro's daughter, Yva, heiress the title of Queen of the Earth.
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I generally love H Rider Haggard,
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My name is Gary Rendell. I'm an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, "astronaut, please!" I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw. I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived. Now I'm lost, and alone, and scared, and there's something horrible in here. Lucky me.
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Recommended
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A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.
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Just OK. Won't repeat it. Won't do more this auth.
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It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches.
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Narrator ruins an otherwise interesting book.
- De Andrew Pollack en 07-03-21
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Galaxias
- De: Stephen Baxter
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By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way. But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze. Earth begins to fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh. Someone has sent us a sign.
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Not a bad idea for a story.
- De CJ in Colorado en 10-26-21
De: Stephen Baxter
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Fools Die
- De: Mario Puzo
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
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Set within America's golden triangle of corruption and excess—New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas—the novel plunges into the glittering and ruthless worlds of gambling, publishing, and the film industry, where greed, lust, and violence hold sway. As high rollers, hustlers, and scheming manipulators use power, sex, and betrayal to win, the strongest survive—but fools die.
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Puzo is a master of the tale and Tabori is the cream voice that transports us.
- De Meeno en 06-21-15
De: Mario Puzo
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The Book of Dragons
- An Anthology
- De: Jonathan Strahan - editor
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson, Lorna Bennett, Eleanor Caudill, y otros
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R.F. Kuang, Kate Elliott, Ken Liu, Todd McCaffrey, Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, and other modern masters of fantasy and science fiction put their unique spin on the greatest of mythical beasts - the dragon - in never-before-heard works written exclusively for this fantasy anthology compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan!
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- sanwizard
- 03-27-15
come on Joe, you can do better than this
wtf? I have read a few of Mr Haldemans books, but it seems this one was written as a way to fill pages wwith words to make a buck.
two thumbs down
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- Matthew J. Graves
- 09-07-23
More about us than aliens
A thoughtful examination of how the American political system would react to a first contact situation. Even more relevant today as anti-science and anti-intellectualism grows in the US if all you want are ray, guns, and war mechs, it’s probably not the book for you
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- Mark
- 02-09-13
Dull; Not Nearly As Good As Joe Haldeman's Others
The story concept is potentially engaging but it's all about dull internal politics leading up to its anticlimactic ending. I've read Joe Haldeman's other books, which I enjoyed much more.
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- Notmoot
- 04-15-24
Future social engineering
Joe is always a good read interesting take on future social structures overblown a bit
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 10-30-23
Unknown intelligence from beyond Earth
Joe Haldeman’s The Coming is a tale of alien contact where the focus is on the anticipation of the event as well as all the attendant machinations from the local to the geopolitical. An astronomer decodes a message from far out in the solar system that simply says, we’re coming. The object tis expected in three months on New Year’s Day. What transpires is quite a bit of panic and disbelief as well as an extortion attempt that arose during an off-the-books investigation of the astronomer. Set in the near future, Europe is on the brink of war with itself, and the US has taken a decidedly right-hand turn. DOD naively believes they can shoot anything down. The ringer at the end was unexcepted.
Haldeman does an excellent job of capturing the mood and reactions of society to such an event. There is disbelief as well as fear of annihilation. He deftly covers appropriate responses. There is also a creative use of media to rapidly disseminate information, in addition to surveillance opportunities with a fully interconnected civilization. At the same time, he accurately predicts the rise of more tight wing fundamental government overreach into social mores. What results is a thoroughly believable scenario.
The narration is exceptional with excellent character distinction with a brisk pace.
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