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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- By Andrew Pollack on 01-17-14
By: F. Paul Wilson
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The Cutting Room
- A Time Travel Thriller
- By: Edward W. Robertson
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
In the future, there are many parallel Earths - but only one of them has time travel. Known as Primetime, its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police. Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. After a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he uncovers extensive damage to another world's timeline - and a conspiracy that reaches all the way back to Primetime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Characters and their journeys mildly interesting
- By Sailfish on 09-27-16
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The Rise of Io
- By: Wesley Chu
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Ella Patel, thief, con-artist and smuggler, is in the wrong place at the wrong time. One night, she happens upon a man and woman being attacked. The man freezes, leaving the woman to fight off five attackers at once, before succumbing. As she dies, to both Ella and the man's surprise, the sparkling light that rises from the woman enters Ella, instead of the man. She soon realizes she's been inhabited by Io, a low-ranking Quasing. Now Ella must help the alien presence to complete her mission.
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1 out of 5 stars
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14 plus hours that I'll never get back.
- By Pachypanchax on 11-08-17
By: Wesley Chu
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Past Crimes
- A Van Shaw Novel
- By: Glen Erik Hamilton
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 267
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 239
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Story4 out of 5 stars 234
From the time he was six years old, Van Shaw was raised by his Irish immigrant grandfather, Donovan, to be a thief - to boost cars, beat security alarms, crack safes, and burglarize businesses. But at 18 Dono's namesake and protégé suddenly broke all ties to that life and the people in it. Van escaped into the military, serving as an elite army ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, after ten years of silence, Dono has asked his grandson to come home to Seattle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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15 Stars! Okay?
- By Ted on 03-06-16
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Tarantula
- A John Milton Short Story
- By: Mark Dawson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 685
Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- By Wayne on 06-03-16
By: Mark Dawson
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Black Fridays
- By: Michael Sears
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 340
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Story4 out of 5 stars 304
Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects. Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed. But it’s not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, "the Kid", from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed it. I loved the end!
- By John on 05-16-14
By: Michael Sears
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Whiskey Sour
- Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mysteries, Book 1
- By: J. A. Konrath
- Narrated by: Susie Breck, Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,494
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,082
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,081
Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself "The Gingerbread Man" is dumping mutilated bodies in her district.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Like the book but GRAPHIC details
- By Kari on 10-31-09
By: J. A. Konrath
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Alice Isn't Dead
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Fink
- Narrated by: Jasika Nicole
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 730
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 726
Keisha Lewis lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, but conditionally recommended.
- By Hayley Lambert on 11-02-18
By: Joseph Fink
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A Clean Kill in Tokyo
- A John Rain Novel
- By: Barry Eisler
- Narrated by: Barry Eisler
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,900
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,890
Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn’t care about why... Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist - and the daughter of his latest kill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligent, engaging, clever, and instructive
- By Cholmondeley on 07-04-16
By: Barry Eisler
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The Big Sheep
- A Novel
- By: Robert Kroese
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 520
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 476
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Story4 out of 5 stars 473
Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper is a tricky task, and there's no one better suited than eccentric private investigator Erasmus Keane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Big Sheep unravels into an incredible mystery
- By Tim on 07-13-16
By: Robert Kroese
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Bloodshot
- Cheshire Red Reports, Book 1
- By: Cherie Priest
- Narrated by: Natalie Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 447
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Story4 out of 5 stars 360
Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesn’t usually hang with her own kind. She’s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resist - even though Ian doesn’t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government files: documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesn’t bargain for is a case that takes her from the frozen outskirts of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A notch above
- By Eivind on 01-31-11
By: Cherie Priest
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Aurora
- A Novel
- By: David Koepp
- Narrated by: Rupert Friend
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story4 out of 5 stars 379
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best of Us
- By James Munoz on 09-09-22
By: David Koepp
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Tom Clancy's Net Force #4: Breaking Point
- By: Netco Partners
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint air force-navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands - and testing has begun....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Tom Clancy book
- By Gramsy Marie on 11-26-16
By: Netco Partners
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Puppet Master
- By: Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing missing limbs. After one of Massina's creations makes a miraculous rescue, an FBI agent recruits him to pursue criminals running a massive financial scam - and, not coincidentally, suspected of killing the agent's brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance bot that uses artificial intelligence to follow its target.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I waited for it to get off the ground....
- By Ramona on 12-13-20
By: Dale Brown, and others
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A Field of Red
- By: Greg Enslen
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Story4 out of 5 stars 205
Ex-cop Frank Harper doesn't want to get involved. Harper is visiting the small Ohio town of Cooper's Mill, trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter and a grandson he's never met. But he finds the town gripped in fear - two young girls have gone missing, taken in broad daylight from a busy street. And the police are coming up blank. But once Harper is drawn reluctantly into the investigation, he'll stop at nothing to find the girls. And he doesn't care who gets in the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book based on complicated relationships
- By shelley on 06-13-15
By: Greg Enslen
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The Long Way Down
- Daniel Faust, Book 1
- By: Craig Schaefer
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,555
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,439
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,439
Nobody knows the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas like Daniel Faust, a sorcerer for hire and ex-gangster who uses black magic and bullets to solve his clients' problems. When an old man comes seeking vengeance for his murdered granddaughter, what looks like a simple job quickly spirals out of control. Soon Daniel stands in the crossfire between a murderous porn director; a corrupt cop with a quick trigger finger; and his own former employer, a racket boss who isn't entirely human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Urban fantasy noir. Done right..
- By Cliff on 02-19-15
By: Craig Schaefer
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