Honorable Enemies

By: Joe Weber

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

"Takes Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun a step further...brisk and exciting." (Publishers Weekly)

The beautiful tranquility of the Hawaiian afternoon is shattered when a cruise ship filled with Japanese tourists is comes under fire. Unbelievably, a civilian helicopter is strafing the ship with automatic weapons.

The shock waves from the tragic attack reach all the way to Washington and Tokyo. In retaliation for the attack, a group of American tourists is ambushed in Osaka, and then Japanese-Americans become targets across the United States. Relations between the U.S. and Japan rapidly deteriorate.

The only way to restore order and prevent a greater conflict is to find out who is responsible for the initial attack - and why. This task is assigned to senior CIA operations officer Stephen Wickham and a Japanese-American FBI agent, Susan Nakamura. Their search leads them to a deadly conspiracy of enormous proportions...and reaching all the way to the highest levels of the U.S. and Japanese governments.

In Honorable Enemies, Joe Weber has formulated a chilling post-Cold War scenario, once again proving himself a master at portraying a frighteningly real near-future confrontation with our most powerful rival - Japan.

"Some writers get better with age: Weber is among them." (Library Journal)

©1994 Joe Weber (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Good story damaged by performance

I enjoyed the story. Whenever he was describing English characters in English, the narrators voice was strong and clear. But when the characters were Japanese, his idea of a Japanese accent was awful. At times it even sounded German. I still don’t understand why Japanese people would speak in their own language to each other with an accent. The bad accents made me cringe. But if you can block that out, go for it.

Weak story

The book spends many chapters building up to a final confrontation. Yet, the situation is defused in the final chapter when the baddies suddenly cooperate/ confess/ volunteer information. Very weak ending. Many of the situations and conversations are hard to believe.

Awesome Author. Lackluster Ending

Great story. good suspense and action. slow paced and weak ending. a decent read. not up to his other books.

Horrible narration, paperthin story

I have literally listened to hundreds of audiobooks on the service over the years. This has to be one of the worst narrators I’ve ever heard. The narrator sounds robotic and reads faster and slower, to say nothing of the horrible borderline insulting accents.

Even for an action adventure, what if scenario book the story and characters are under developed, unbelievable and not very interesting.

I’m about halfway through this book and I don’t think I’m even going to finish it and couldn’t care less about the story. Definitely pass on this one.

Honestly just don’t

I can’t decide if the story is bad or just meh because the narrator is just terrible. The cheesy accents that are honestly pretty insulting and the goofy articulation as an attempt to convey emotion make this almost unbearable. Just don’t waste your time.

old book, this author's newer is better.

slow story, with much agent romance. cheesey voices from reader yada yada yada yada yads