Dead Six

By: Larry Correia, Mike Kupari

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Michael Valentine, veteran and former member of an elite private military company, has been recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf nation of Zubara. The unit is called Dead Six. Their mission is to take the fight to the enemy and not get caught. Lorenzo, assassin and thief extraordinaire, is being blackmailed by the world's most vicious crime lord. His team has to infiltrate the Zubaran terrorist network and pull off an impossible heist or his family will die. When Dead Six compromises his objective, Lorenzo has a new job: Find and kill Valentine. As allegiances are betrayed and the nation descends into a bloody civil war, Lorenzo and Valentine must face off. Two men. Two missions. Only one will win.

©2011 Larry Correia, Mike Kupari (P)2014 Audible Inc.

For those who love action and a gripping story...

What made the experience of listening to Dead Six the most enjoyable?

The author does a wonderful job of developing the characters

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Absolutely! The plot sequences were absolutely believable.

What about Bronson Pinchot’s performance did you like?

He is by far the best Audible narrator I have heard thus far! I am awed by his range and ability to differentiate his voice for each character. Great acting skills!

Good story bad listen

I loved the story and well maybe I'm just being picky but the performance stank. The voice actor kept slipping in and out of voice with the two main characters. And the accents he attempted were horrible. Apparently Mexicans, Portuguese, Arabs, and Frenchmen all sound like Russian gangsters. Then 20 something year old tech geeks, gay bad guys , an Asian women all sound alike too. It's too bad this is one of the few times I was actually hope by for a narrator switch between books. I guess I will either read the next book in the series or just abandon it, because I certainly will not be listening to it.

It was a long book

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Yes and no. There were times the book dragged on but then something would happen that would make me want to continue listening.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I'm not sure. I liked how it went back and forth between the 2 main characters. I just think maybe it could've been split up into 2 books or 1.5 and the next 1.5.

Have you listened to any of Bronson Pinchot’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Love him. That's why I took a chance on this book.

Was Dead Six worth the listening time?

Yes and no. I zoned out a couple of times and had to rewind it because it seemed to go on and on but like I said, there were times it was great so....

Poor Narration

The narration was of poor quality. I would continue to listen to the books in this series if the narrator was different. I liked the story line.

If you like monster hunters, go ahead and try this

Not hunting monsters exactly, but it is an enjoyable series with many of the same elements as the MHI books

Different but good

It included many twist I didn't see coming. Enjoyed it and recommend it to Larry Correia fans. Gonna read the next one and I'm looking forward to it.

Good story, GREAT. narration!

Kudos to Bronson Pinchot!
Come a long way from Cousin Balki! I had a hard time believing it was him, but - TERRIFIC JOB! i want MORE!

Action packed and Suspensful

Overall an excellent book that keeps your attention. The character development is excellent making you feel like you’ve known them for years. Lorenzo and his crew definitely lighten the mood and bring humor to the story compared to valentine and his unit. As with any of Larry’s books, the technical details are accurate and allow avid shooters like myself to thoroughly enjoy the story.

Wow! This is the best narration ever!

Where does Dead Six rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I had to check because I was convinced several actors were narrating this book. Amazingly good! Worth the price of admission in the first chapter.

Would you be willing to try another book from Larry Correia and Mike Kupari ? Why or why not?

I got the next one in the series!

Have you listened to any of Bronson Pinchot’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

We were blown away. This guy is amazing. I really didn't believe one person was doing the narration.

Good, but sometimes felt like a Paint-by-Numbers

work as opposed to the masterful artistry of the Grimnoir Chronicles trilogy.

This book had a slow start and it took a while to get the characters in place. Reading this shortly after Hard Magic, Spellbound, and Warbound, the Grimnoir trilogy was a letdown.

The powerful imagery that provided descriptions for the imagination in the Grimnoir books - the virtual scenes, sounds, smells and tastes - weren't in this book and the characters ranged from about 5 to 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 in complexity wheras they were generally from 7 to 10 in the Grimnoir books. The imagery and characters in the Grimnoir books were well-developed, described, and complex with good and negative traits and after raising the bar, the Dead Six characters were just average and basic stereotype characters.

In Monster Hunters' first book the female love interest and interactions felt like they were written by a 14 year old, and in the Grimnoir trilogy there was a noticeable change toward a more sophisticated and complex interaction between men and women. The inner thoughts were also much more interesting and showed conflicts and personal agendas. In Dead Six, inner thoughts were predictable and basic. And, the one of the more explicitly written "love scenes" made me burst out with laughter. Back to the teenage boy writer - so cliche.

Bronson Pinchot is awesome as a narrator, but some of the foreign accents were a little off - and there were a few times when it sounded like he forgot which character used which speech pattern. And, the soft spoken helpless female voices . . . in real life women don't talk like that . . . and sometimes I ran the whispery spoken female sentences through my head the way real women talk and wondered why the choice was made to use such a speech pattern - why not let the women talk like they've got some backbone or brains.

The "free" first chapter of book two is a good marketing technique and it did make me want to buy the next book.

It was a good story, and an exciting diversion from educational books or boring work, but for me it was a "lowering of the bar" after the Grimnoir books.