• Compound Fractures

  • Dr. Alan Gregory, Book 20
  • By: Stephen White
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (187 ratings)

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Compound Fractures

By: Stephen White
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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Publisher's summary

For more than twenty years, in nearly a score of best-selling crime novels, Stephen White's stories of Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory have captivated millions. Now, Compound Fractures provides a riveting last chapter to the series.

In Line of Fire, Dr. Gregory found himself assailed by danger from every direction as he struggled with circumstances beyond his control. Authorities were closing in on Alan and his friend Sam Purdy for their roles in a woman’s death years earlier. Alan was struggling to deal with the emotional breakdown of his longtime friend Diane after she discovered evidence of her husband’s infidelity. By the end, Alan’s personal life and his career were in danger of complete collapse.

But Line of Fire merely set the stage. In Compound Fractures, Alan is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. Instead he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal from those who have been closest to him. He is compelled to reconsider what he has long believed about trust and about love while he is trying to cope with overwhelming loss and grief.

To protect himself, Alan must revisit the cruel ethical dilemma that turned his life upside down as a young psychologist. He has to judge whether the people reentering his life after long absences are friends or foes. He has to make sense of echoes of distant tragedies while he decides if there is anyone he can really trust. And as the clock ticks down, he must solve a deadly mystery in Eldorado Springs that has been brewing for more than a decade.

At times full of pathos, at other times replete with White’s distinctive wry humor, Compound Fractures delivers the entrancing characters, the suspense, the intricately plotted story lines, and the unexpected twists that readers have come to expect.

©2013 Stephen W. White (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Quotation credit from On the High Wire, by Philippe Petit, reprinted by permission of the author. Recorded by arrangement with Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

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Fantastic Series, Disappointing ending

I have followed this series since book one. I adore these books. Sadly the ending just didn't do it for me. I thought it was one of the weakest books of the series. The plot never fully came to a conclusion. After 20 books I think I deserve a damn conclusion! I didn't think the twists and turns in this book were realistic (not that any of them are- but I'm talking book world here). I also hated that after all this the series ends with him talking about which girl he's having sex with. And he doesn't even tell us! I wanted the kids to be in the final prologue. It ended with what was perhaps meant to be a cliffhanger but kind of just annoyed me. Why bother throwing in one last problem if this is the end of the whole series? Especially such a mundane little problem all things considered. The final book felt anti climactic and had so little to do with the main people of the series. The second to last book was far more exciting in my opinion I hoped this book would bring that whole saga to a crazy final end but instead it brought it to a random less eventful end. Really? It's hard to say more without spoilers!


Also, I have to get this out... I HATE LAUREN! Has anyone else hated Lauren since the very beginning? I never liked her. Not as annoying mousy girlfriend, not as bitchy wife, not at all not ever. Phew it feels good to finally get that out!

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Glad I'm done...

I looked forward to this book but wonder now if I would have been better off without reading it. I've read all the books in this series and generally liked them a lot. This book was a bad end to a pretty good series. I thought it overwrought - too much angst, and moral rationalization. There was too much thinking on Alan's part, at least to put it all on paper and have a reader follow it and not get tired of it. I usually enjoy Dick Hill as a narrator but in this case his narration was tainted by a badly done story. Aside from the ridiculous 'plot twists', a great deal of it was just a rehash of the last book. I listened to the book instead of reading it so I was not able to skim over the parts that I found overly analytic and annoying without the possibility of missing some detail that would mean something later. All in all I was glad when it ended and with the last couple of books I'm glad to see the end of this series.

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Crushed

Crushed that I’ve read the last one in the series. Amazing story weaver, Sheehan White Grans you from page one. You experience all emotions . Great for shadowing, great false summits, just a brilliant writer. Dick Hill is also an amazing reader who puts you exactly where you should be.. watching it all happen in your minds eye.

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Compound Fracture

too many storyline. Reader was too heavy and theatrical. that's not the voice I imagined for Alan.

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Great as always


A bit different in terms of Alan and Sam but captivating. really great reader.

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Much better then the GOT story line.

Will miss Alan, Sam , Jonas, Gracie and DICK HILL! For the final installment I’m gonna wonder how they all fair.

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Best book of the series

The Alan Gregory series has been great. I really enjoyed spending time with Dr. Gregory, Sam, and the rest of Stephen White's Boulder gang. Dick Hill, as always created entertaining voices with plenty of inflection and feeling. A great voice talent for the audible audience. I recommend reading the series, not just this book. It is fun to watch the characters, relationships, and Mr. White's story telling mature throughout the books.

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Wow. What a ride into the sunset!!!

What a ending to this fabulous book serious. I read the reviews about this book and deliberated not to buy it. Glad I ignored my inclination. So many people want pat endings. Everything tied up in a bow. This was fantastic read and kudos to Stephen White in relating this with his first Alan Gregory novel. Maybe I can see this better than most, because I was trained in Alan's occupation. One of my professors said to my class on Ethics, "We, are not the truth police". That about wraps this up in a nutshell. Gonna miss my sessions with Dr. Gregory!!

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Not as good as most

Book was okay. Kept changing from character r to character , sometimes hard to bridge.

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Disappointing.

For the concluding episode of the Dr. Alan Gregory series, I was disappointed. Do not feel it was nearly as good as his previous works..

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