Dead Mountain

De: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo, renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution.

In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given the code name “Dead Mountain” by the FBI, was never solved.

Now, two more bodies from the lost expedition are unexpectedly discovered in a cave, one a grisly suicide. Young FBI Agent Corrie Swanson teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate what really happened on that fateful trip fifteen years ago—and to find the ninth victim. But their search awakens a long-slumbering evil, which pursues Corrie and Nora with a vengeance, determined to prevent the final missing corpse from ever coming to light.

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Praise for Preston and Child

“Diablo Mesa is thriller-adventure writing of the absolute highest order that takes Preston and Child back to their high-concept roots... It reads like a hybrid of the best from Wilbur Smith and Alistair MacLean, making for flat-out great reading entertainment.”—Providence Sunday Journal

“The story has tension, mystery, murder… Down-to-earth action tackles an otherworldly mystery in this devilishly plausible yarn.”—Kirkus (Starred Review)

“Excellent… The taut suspense and tight plotting that marked the authors’ earliest Pendergast novels are very much in evidence. Fans of kick-ass female leads will be delighted.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Thoroughly entertaining.”—Booklist

“Diablo Mesa will keep you enthralled.”—The Florida Times-Union

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worst reader I've heard. sound quality resembles an empty concrete hallway. nearly every man sounds the exact same, and it doesn't even sound like a real accent. nobody talks like this. the story is good, even though reminiscent of previous tales of corrie and Nora.

wish I could get a refund. I usually wait to the hard cover to read first and I wish I had again. ruined the immersion and any progress of character development.

Good book - bad choice of the narrator

It was very difficult to stay with the story because of the narrator.

I felt I was listening to my grandmother reading the lines of the big bad wolf.

Any time a male character was depicted, the female narrator tried to a have deep growly voice. Sounded pretty ridiculous.

I would definitely recommend skipping “romance” scene unless you want to feel you are a part of a Saturday Night skit.

I can’t keep going, The narration is dull.

The narration and production quality are really bad. Sounds like it was recorded in a can. I keep stopping a number of times. I want this to work out but it is going to take some time.

Not a Nora Kelly story

This isn't a bad story - it actually has a lot of great aspects. But it isn't about Nora Kelly. It focuses primarily on FBI agent C. Swanson. It is her path through events that drive the plot, and her fate that is at the centre of events.

The narrator is getting a lot of criticism in the reviews. I don't think she did that badly, but it IS difficult to tell her character voices apart at times. I would listen to the next installment with the samr narrator - she did okay.

The ending of the story lets down its potential. It wraps up too quickly (under 40 mins) and too predictably with no real twists or turns to make it interesting. And at the end of it all, Nora Kelly hasn't really been integral to anything.

Confusing story not helped by poor narration

I generally am a big fan of these authors, but I have to say I was underwhelmed by this book. I found it difficult to keep track of all the characters, and this wasn’t helped by the narration, which I found to be kind of wooden and uninteresting.