Ice Station Wolfenstein

Order of the Black Sun, Book 1

By: Preston Child

Narrated by: Dan Lawson

Sam Cleave, reporter for a small newspaper, has seen better days. After his partner was killed during an undercover investigation, he lost his passion for work and living.

But when a resident of a nearby assisted living home is tortured and murdered in a barbaric manner, he starts investigating. He is especially intrigued when a mysterious box is given to him that belonged to the dead man, but he needs help to interpret what it means.

He teams up with Nina Gould, an expert in World War II history. Soon the two of them realize that they are about to discover one of the best-guarded secrets of the war. It dawns on them that this would be the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value, and a discovery that men would kill for. They join an expedition, sponsored by an eccentric billionaire, hunting for gold and breathtaking art buried deep below the Antarctic surface. Instead of gold and stolen art, they find something terrifyingly disturbing beneath the eternal ice.

A team of Nazi scientists has made an amazing discovery. But experiments have gone terribly wrong. The situation gets out of hand, and before long the expedition members find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul. Nina and Sam realize that their only hope for survival is to unlock the secrets of Ice Station Wolfenstein.

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slow but then gets really good

The book turns out to be a really good listen. It took a bit for me to get involved, but once I did it was really great. I am looking forward to the second one.

Horrible narrator

The story was not bad, although it had a lbit of an anti-Semitic tone that was in bad form. The narrator, however, was awful. While he used some amusing, if inaccurate accents, his use of the long “a” in every case where the word “a” occurred was quite annoying. Worse, he mispronounce several words - some repeatedly. Does any one edit these things?

Awesome Book

I really enjoyed listening to this book. I liked the characters. The narrator was very good and the twist towards the end was completely unexpected. I would recommend this book

Word a day calendar

The author does an amazing job of immersing you into the story. Performance rating very low due to the number of mispronunciations.

good story (although a little short), poorly read

I'm somewhat of a Preston Child fan, and enjoyed many of the same things that I enjoy about his other books in this story: good characters, good story, nods to interesting historical facts, etc. I'm also a fan of audiobooks, and all of my Preston Child reads have actually been audio.

The complaints I have about this story and the reading of it are things that I've never had to complain about with other Preston child books.

First and foremost was the narrator. Child trends to choose exceptional narrators for his books, but this one reminds me a bit of listening to a high school kid read. I could go for stretches without any problems, but everytime the words "a" or "an" came up, it was hesitant and extremely hard in the diction, and occasional pauses elsewhere that made this reading feel kind of odd.

My other concern was that the book field like it was a single book that has been divided into three to make a trilogy. The pacing seems good until I got to the end which was very abrupt. I'm hoping the child is not resort to this in the future, as his books are usually well developed and nicely paced.

Still, all in all, an okay read. Not enough to turn me off of future Child books; in fact now that I've started it I must finish the trilogy in spite of my issues with listening to that narrator.