Against All Odds

By: Irene Hannon

Narrated by: Stevie Ray Dallimore

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's Summary

RITA Award winner Irene Hannon has also won the Holt Medallion for her romantic suspense. In this pulse-pounding thriller, the White House orders elite FBI operator Evan Cooper to secure Monica Callahan from a terrorist threat. But since Monica refuses all calls from her senior diplomat father, she sees no need for his round-the-clock protection—until a chilling “message” leaves no doubt.

©2009 Irene Hannon (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

Love this series

I've actually read this series before but I have recently gotten into audiobooks and wanted to listen to it. I thought the narrator did an excellent job with the voices of the terrorists.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Very Good Story - but too preachy in some parts

Very good story- plot definitely fits into today's political/ radical/ terrorist climate - so I didn't want to stop listening - I wanted to find out how it was all going to work out. But the preachy parts did take away from it for me & some parts, especially near the end were not as believable. I might have hesitated to buy it if I had known it was christian based - but over all I'm glad I listened to it.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Really worth listening to.

Well written and the narrator did a great job. It was exciting and kept your attention. A good clean Christian story.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Just as good the second time

I read this book awhile ago, and just listened to it on Audible. it's just as good-maybe even better- the second time around. The narrator really brings it to life.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Great story, Great narrator

This wonderful story came alive with the excellent narration of Mr . Dallimore. His ability to give each character's voice a different vocal distinction makes for a more exciting adventure.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Finding Courage

It is so good to have Christian mysteries. The story was slow on the up take. It took a while for the heroine to understand what it meant to be a family member of a political appointee. When Monica's dad tried to contact her after years apart, she wouldn't return his calls. This could have caused her death. It took her a while to really listen to what the FBI agent, Evan Cooper, was saying. Events happened to convince her that her life was in serious danger. It is funny how you learn a jingle and it sticks with you. For Monica, it saved her life.

Evan fell for Monica as soon as he saw her. This was beautiful. I really liked how Monica was not going to give up her Christian beliefs to have a person in her life. She never put Evan down for not being sure of his beliefs. This was a perfect opportunity to share her faith.

I was most surprised of how the FBI handled "safe housing". It seams like no one thought about how a tracker could be on or in something. Don't they scan everyday for bugs etc. I also did not understand why Monica's father's car was not inspected before he got in it. I just I have watched too many cop shows.

Everything worked out because it took courage to fight for life even when things looked bad.

Needs new reader

I love this story but the narrator gave no emotions and his timing was way off. I struggled through it because of the narrator. This story is amazing but the narrator distracted me because of how monotone the performance was.

Mostly Extraordinary

The story had the bad guys a little too simplistic and that made their perfect performance a little unbelievable. They also seemed to understand our culture a little too well. Which made the good guys look incompetent. I'm referring of course to when they didn't scan their luggage for bugs or have live communications at all times when the officer was on the back road or have high level security encryption on their camera feeds. (Malls have better security on their cameras than the FBI? No way!) But here's the thing overall the story was fantastic! And the performance dead on believable! That's what made me hold onto the entire series "Heroes Of Quantico ). Good work and a job well done!

Way to formulaic!

Although I see that this author has written many many books, I am puzzled by her popularity. This book abundantly formulaic. I knew the end within the first few minutes of the story. It might be nice for a fifth grade student to read but is far too simple for adults.

I should've done my due diligence and read a review before taking the time and energy to listen to this book. I shall ask for a refund.

Great story, terrible performance

We like to listen to books while driving. This guy is like listening to a monotone teacher. Kept having to quit listening because we were falling asleep. That has never happened!