Bat out of Hell

An Eco Thriller

De: Alan Gold

Narrado por: Kristin Price

From the jungles of Indonesia to the very heart of New York City comes a plague that kills 100 percent of its victims. Medicine's greatest nightmare, this modern Black Death is caused by the most virulent and uncontrollable mutant virus humanity has ever witnessed. And medicine can do nothing to stop its merciless spread.

Scientist Debra Hart and her team of experts are tasked by the United Nations to stop the disease. Racing against time, they must find the cause and the cure and figure out why this deadly disease - spread by bats - is killing thousands in cities across the globe. Debra and her team will struggle to stop the disease from spreading to millions more, even if it means killing off every bat alive.

But fighting to prevent her are manic animal rights' activists who rail against species genocide, even if it means risking the deaths of human beings. And hidden behind a cloak of secrecy is a crazed academic who'll even kill top American government officials to save one living creature. This is the nightmare scenario that Debra faces as the public becomes so terrified of bats that entire communities become vigilantes.

©2015 Alan Gold (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Save the animals, No the other ones!

I like the story it was different. I could even endure the main character getting all in her own head about not "getting any" for a long time.

Not sure I can finish

The first chapter seems to be nothing but introducing political beliefs. Not sure I will make it much farther.

It’s so so

Performance is kind of blah. Story is a little shallow. It won’t have you hanging on every word.

Not at all what I expected

Narrator did best she could with the content.
Female lead was not a strong character. I really could have done without her sexual fantasies.
I expected a medical/research tale with some exciting bat encounters. Nope. if you are not into politics don't bother with this one.

Jumbled accents and bad politics

The premise of the book sounded great. Who doesn’t love a good pandemic story? But the red flags started when Gold tried to imagine what British politicians would do in such a scenario. That was made worse by the awful jumbled up accents that Price was throwing at us. Is it Irish? Scottish? Klingon? Utter chaos!
Also, any decent diplomat or international relations connoisseur hasn’t used the term “third world country” in decades. A 2015 book should reflect that. The right term is “developing countries”.
Oh, and an intelligent female scientist couldn’t resist having a girly crush on the hot president and telling us aaaaall about her thoughts?
A Republican president worried about ethnic diversity in a scientific team? Give me a break. That is suspending reality way too much!