Code Name: Camelot

Noah Wolf, Book 1

De: David Archer

Narrado por: Adam Verner

Framed for crimes he did not commit, he is sentenced to death by his own country....

Noah Wolf is quickly becoming one of the top names in the world of espionage. With well over one million copies sold and thousands of five-star reviews, this perennial USA Today best-selling series will be sure to keep your heart pounding well into the night.

After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience, and without the ability to function as a normal human being. With the help of childhood friends, he learns to watch others around him and mimic their behaviors, in order to conceal the fact that his mind operates more like a computer that he has spent years programming. That program is what allows Noah to pass himself off as normal, by establishing parameters of right and wrong that are completely inviolable to him.

As a young adult, Noah finds structure in the US Army, and becomes an excellent and exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of the superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable, charged with crimes he did not commit and facing the possibility of execution. Without any reasonable hope for a reprieve, Noah's logic-based mind accepts his fate.

Sometimes, though, things are not all as they seem to be, and Noah is offered one chance to save himself. It was his disability, his lack of emotion, that made him the soldier he had become. Now, an ultra-secret organization known as E&E wants Noah's talents, offering him a chance to survive...as the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.

©2016 David Archer (P)2016 Lone Stone Publishing Ltd.

New Narrator

This may have been a good book but the performance was one of if not the worst I have heard. This is saying something as I have 300+ books in my library.
I was looking forward to others in the series but will not be buying another.
I am not going to give up on the author and already purchased another from his other series...hope springs eternal.
I will let you know😀

Interesting

The pace of the narration was too slow but was able to remedy that. Interesting premise. Likable characters.

Great Performance of a Great Book

I am glad I took a chance on a new author and an unknown reader. Tha story was Excellent, the author did an excellent job of taking an old story line and breathing new life in to it. Characters that would have been lifeless in the hands of a less skilled author were given skills, purpose and a cause then set on a path where right is never sacrificed for success.
The performer gave the story's characters life and his audio portrayal of the nuances if the many facets of the story was never dull or lifeless.
My thanks to both the author and the performer for making this audio book an unexpected treat!
C White

Not many surprises but interesting.

Interesting story with only a few twists that aren't too predictable. Characters seemed realistic and engaging, especially the main character "Noah", who was not quite as 'odd' as advertised. Would definitely recommend as an easy read that doesn't require much thought. Narrator was good.

I bit slow but good overall.

I got the book for free and added audible to it for $0.99, the book is a bit slow for my liking but good enough I bought the rest of the series. I read fast so audible is super slow in comparison so I'm glad I don't pay for it.

excellent book

Great book. Didn't want to put it down even at 3 in the morning.

Great premise - execution needs work.

The premise of the story is excellent. However, very little action: one mission. The action should have began in the first Act if you divide into 3 acts. Instead, it was at the end of a second act. Dialogue was repetitive, did not move the story along, was not how these characters would talk. Not witty, not clever. Needs a good story and dialogue editor. I hope the series continues with major revisions. Reading Mark Greaney, Robert Crais, Lee Child and others for story pacing and dialogue would help. Also, bad politician introduced at the start was never dealt with again. The old adage, "if you introduce a gun in the first act, you better use it by the third," was violated.

not as good as reviews indicates

The plot was interesting. I found its execution disappointing. There are a lot of inconsistencies. The main character Noah is described as lacking the ability to feel emotions. The author uses words that describe and indicate emotions to him. Then suddenly author goes back to paragraphs of reminding reader/listener of Noah's emotions being lacking. Care is taken to describe his response to situation that started him to this special organization. Noah says that he has to know how others would reaction to special situations. With no guide to base his behaviour at that circumstance he reacted logically. Then how/why did he show caring for female prop used to complete primary first mission? His personality and self proclaimed mission first would indicate he WOULDN'T care about her. She would only be a prop for his mission.Noah has his death faked. The whole world thinks this is true. So why would he try to get her out of the situation? No consistency. The organization that recruits Noah is super secret and paranoid about any leaks. One is lead to believe that its members are on a need to know about teams and more. The only way a person would know that someone was a part of the organization would be through working with them. So how did the members of Noah's team know who and what he was prior to the introduction/? Then the weak development of his interaction with his team. He knows he isn't to talk about the organization and its members under penalty of death. Noah goes to an outside person and gives a weak what if scenario. No consistency. One member of team has a strong and apparent hatred of what Noah is and did. Solution? Beat him up and everything is alright from there. The female member of team makes it plain she doesn't trust him or his type. Solution? No he didn't follow it! She comes and jumps into his bed. Problem solved! The last member of the team irritates the other two. In fact he goes out of his way to do this. Solution? Ignore it and expect the team to function well. Noah is protracted as loving to read. Histories are his favorite. So where did he get what amounts to trivia knowledge of how to complete first mission? Noah has sex with a team member. Then sex with the prostitute (of years experience). Then his female team member gets back in bed with him. Something should have been indicated about safe sex. The female team leader may have (temporarily?) squelched her emotions about the act. In this day and age she should have been very concerned about disease from a low class hooker. The plot develops poorly. Noah approaches and solves problems as a matter of course. I found no drama. I can only compare the plot to author opting to take the escalator instead of climbing stairs.I did enjoy the reader. He did a good job of voice portrayal. He went from flat affect to Noah to emotion charged characters well.

Ingenious entertainment!

Anyone who enjoys action thrillers will love this book! It’s concept and detail and characters were fascinating! Some of the technology and how it influenced the plot makes you wish this was real, and the actor who voiced it all was incredible. Can’t wait to see the movie/TV series!!

Almost 4 stars..

Any additional comments?

Noah was an unusual hero! He had no feelings, no emotions, no nothing that made him seem human. But you couldn’t help but like him. He was in the military and killed 3 or 4 of his fellow soldiers and was found guilty and sentenced to death. AND he was OK with that. It made perfect sense to him. Even though he didn’t “murder” them as he was accused of doing. I mean, he had his reasons (you’ll have to read the book to find out what those reasons were.)

Anyway, the Dragon Lady (Allison) came to his rescue and he became part of a group called E&E (Elimination and Eradication.)

My problem with this is where all these people came from: a hacker, a car thief, a kid that killed 7 people at once, when he was 16, a guy that decked his commanding officer, and yet, the language was just unreal. Da*n was used 7 times, sh*t was used 4 times and h*ll was used 5 times? That’s not how those kinds of people swear. If you’re going to be that unbelievably unreal you might as well use dang or durn or darn or heck or shoot. I like to read about fantastic stories that could happen but I like to read how real people talk, not like a religious person who wouldn’t say sh*t if they had a mouthful.

Another thing that disturbs me is that you don’t know what anyone looks like, except the waitress that’s platinum blonde and 200 pounds. Really? No idea what Noah looks like or Allison or Moose or Neil or Sarah, but you want to say that about a server?

This was a good story but it was kind of drawn out. I mean: He walked to his car, opened the door, slid in, put the key in, started the engine, and eased out into traffic. That was necessary? Just over and over again we had that kind of ridiculous description of what and how things were done.

I think this book was mostly to introduce you to Noah and his team, and to go through his training, until the last 25% when they went out on a mission. I have bought another book by this author, The Grave Man, and I’m hoping it’s a little better than this one.

There was not a thing sexy about this book. Noah pushed Sarah down on the bed then it was the next morning. And the swearing was just stupid.

As to the narrator: He was alright. I think he laughed one time when the book called for it, and he might have sighed one time, too. Other than that there was not much emotion. He did the women’s voices OK but he made every man with a different voice, gruff (Moose,) mellow (Noah,) high pitched (Neil,) German accent (Daniel,) whatever was needed. So, there was that! He wasn’t horrible but he wasn’t great either.