Blind Impact

The Gabriel Wolfe Thrillers, Book 2

By: Andy Maslen

Narrated by: Gethyn Edwards

Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Kasym brings the long-bladed knife up so Chloe can see the orange glow of the passing streetlamps reflected in the polished steel. The move works. It usually does. She becomes completely still. Sarah, Chloe's mother, stares open-mouthed at the blade. It has a very narrow tip and glints viciously along its stone-whetted edge.

So begins the kidnapping that plunges Gabriel Wolfe into a search and rescue mission in the Baltic state of Estonia. But there is more at stake than the lives of two British tourists. Someone is tinkering with a performance-enhancing drug designed to help British fighter pilots exploit the potential of the Typhoon fighter.

Caught between Russian mafia bosses and Chechen terrorists, Gabriel has to find the hostages before the crowds at the Farnborough Airshow witness a jet fighter flown into the ground at 900 mph by its hallucinating pilot.

The mission calls for street-fighting skills, military strategy and a stint undercover as a doorman for Jonny Rocketz, a sleazy bar in Talinn's red light district. Gabriel is up for the challenge, but he's still carrying guilt for leaving a comrade's body behind in his last, disastrous mission for the SAS. Will it overwhelm him just when he needs to be at his most focused?

This is the second full-length outing for Gabriel Wolfe, former SAS soldier and freelance security consultant. If you like your action heroes to have an intriguing back story alongside their military chops, he's the man for you.

©2016 Andy Maslen (P)2016 Andy Maslen

Thrilling.

What does Gethyn Edwards bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I've listened to a few books narrated by Gethyn Edwards and this fastly became one of my favorites. He performed this book with fantastic emotion, authentic accents and great emotion. He's amazing.

Any additional comments?

This book was like a thrill ride. The author captured my attention immediately and took me on a exciting ride. This book appeals to men and women and I highly recommend it.

Good read

Well written, good story and good character development. Recommend to anyone who likes spy novels and action, intrigue.

I only made it 2 hrs

I made it through the first one, and the series is definitely more Bond than Rapp. (Well, no Rapp)
Character is the proper, refined, English gentleman and overall is light on actual action. There’s a lot of assessment and observations and explanations, etc. Lots of detail, and well written.
the narrator is good but doesn’t help in that particular regard bc his voice is so soothing and even- even the action parts don’t sound that exciting.

The reason I turned this one off was because unlike the first book, the author switched to a multi-story line where you go back and forth between the protagonists story line and the villains. (And I would guess if I kept listening there would be more)
I just get tired of that. I don’t listen to this genre of hero- fiction in order to listen to hours of psychos doing horrible things to other people. Sometimes those parallel storylines are interesting and you just have deal w the protagonist role making up a fraction of the whole story.
But that wasn’t the case here.
It didn’t help that the one of the psychos was a female whose voice was grating and sounded like she had no teeth as she told everyone what a crazy b!+€# she was.

When I realized I was not enjoying it at all and fast forwarding through half of it- deciding I’d rather be a bit confused than have to listen to it — I decided it was time to call it.