• Allegiance

  • Jackson Quick, Book 1
  • By: Tom Abrahams
  • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
  • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (144 ratings)

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Allegiance

By: Tom Abrahams
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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Publisher's summary

A conspiracy so big, it takes a microscope to see it.

Beer, redheads, and politics...Jackson Quick should have known better. First, he trusted a Texas politician. Then he fell for a leggy woman. Worst of all, he drank a beer that tasted funny.

Now, he's running for his life and trying to save the world. When Quick is kidnapped and interrogated about the encrypted tech he's been charged by his powerful boss to deliver, he has no idea it's connected to a missing research scientist on the verge of an earth-shaking breakthrough. Nor is he aware of its proximity to the attempted assassination of a political candidate.

Now he has to piece all of it together and stop the unthinkable from becoming a reality.

Allegiance is book one of the trilogy of Jackson Quick Sci-Fi Adventures and introduces the unwitting hero with a secret past and a penchant for uncovering the truth. It's perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, Pierce Brown, and John Scalzi.

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This book hits the ground running!!!!


And the pace never lets up. The protagonist (Jackson Quick) is an aide to the governor of Texas. Quick is kidnapped from a bar, where he’s drugged and questioned for five days. He has no clue about the what or why. He’s told on his release by the kidnappers that they’re watching him. Not knowing how close he contacts his best friend to help him get out of town. His friend is killed and dies in Quick’s arms. Until Quick can figure out the conspiracy his life is in danger and so is everyone else’s that he enlists for help. The problem is that one of the people he’s trying to protect but feeding information to really isn’t his friend.
I’m not sure why this book states in the summary that it’s a sci-fi. This book has so much action in it. I was glued from beginning to end.
Jay Snyder does an amazing job narrating. He narrates The Gray Man books and I always wished that he would do more. His voice is perfect for this type of book.

This book has my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.
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Intrigue at its best

Tom Abrahams always always brings the heat. This is no different. Great action mixed with a fun ending that left me looking for book two. Soon... soon.

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Okay story and great narration..

This was an okay read. I really didn't understand how Jackson Quick, who was a reporter, then on the Governor's personal staff, was such an awesome shooter AND cared so little when he killed someone. He wasn't the kind of man who dealt with that kind of world. AND why was this called a sci-fi? I didn't get that either. Jackson was just too much of an ordinary person to be such a killer.

I doubt I could go on with this series. He isn't a "hero" as far as I'm concerned. He's someone who seems to get lucky at every turn, that's all.

No real romance or sex and no real swearing either.

As for the narration: The only reason I actually got this book was because Jay Snyder was narrating it. He's simply awesome.

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A Thriller I Couldn’t Put Down

I honestly went into this pretty blind. I mean, as blind as you can when you’ve already read almost every other book that an author has put out. So, I knew going into it what kind of action to expect, but I wasn’t sure what I was going to get story-wise. Of course, Abrahams gave me everything I wanted and more. Allegiance throws you into the deep end right away and there are scenes where I kept thinking “what in the heck is going on here” within the first few minutes.

Abrahams, as in all his other books, is able to write a story that has so much truth in it that it makes it almost creepy to read. His background, for those unsure, is a new reporter, and one of the characters in this book is that. So almost every scene with him in it I think “how much of this is true or would really happen this way” and I know that most of it is likely true.

The character of Jackson Quick was fascinating. He’s one of those action/thriller main characters that through almost half of the book you think “how is he so good at this” – but with Allegiance, Abrahams had Quick questioning it himself. He even threw in some backstory and flashbacks to start to color in Quick’s life and allow us to piece together why he was better at the things he was doing than the average Joe would be.

Overall, Allegiance was an incredible start to what I hope is a great thriller series. I can’t wait to dive into more stories with him and I can’t wait to figure out how much more Abrahams is going to give us about his backstory. Add in the excellent narration by Jay Snyder and you have an excellent story that I couldn’t put down.

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loving Jay Snyder's voice

wow following my favorite storyteller has led me to another fabulous character. Jackson Quick

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Enjoyable page-turner

I'm a native Texan and an Austinite so that made this book a bit more fun for me than it might for most people, but it's still a fun story and I'll be buying the next book in the series. I've got nearly 200 Audible titles in my library, so I listen to quite a few books. There are many that I either can't get through or just don't want to try, but that wasn't the case with this book. It was suspenseful enough and detailed enough to hold my attention for the entire story.

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Best book in a while

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the authors realistic portrayal of each of the characters. I also enjoyed the narration and voices which adds to the intrigue.

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Awesome

This audiobook was awesome. It held my attention for the entire time. The death of the young lady was sad. Overall it gets all the stars!!!

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Disappointing

Based on other reviews, I thought this would be a great book. Instead it was just ok. It felt like the author was stretching in too many ways to get the story to move in the direction he wanted it too. I almost stopped listening multiple times but kept at it to the end. I guess I was hoping it would get better. The only thing I can't fault is the narration. I've enjoyed listening to Jay Snyder read the Gray Man series and he did a great job with this book as well.

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Allegiance

Lame and Bland story. Lack of Creativity. The only good thing was fantastic narrative of Jay Snyder.

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