Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Janson Equation

Janson

By: Douglas Corleone

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

To prevent a war in Asia - one that could quickly spread to the rest of the world - Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder...

Prominent US Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference. And when Janson and Kincaid realize they're being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime - and the cover-up - were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the US State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea.

©2015 Douglas Corleone (P)2015 Hachette Audio

A different Janson story.

It felt a little bit different from the other books but was still quite good!

Time Warp read by a Shatner protege

Somehow, Paul Janson, Vietnam war SEAL/POW has gotten younger and became an Afghan POW.

The voice actor has taken a page from the William Shatner school of excessive pauses.

if you were to do a voice to text on this performance, you'd need a truckload of comma's delivered.

Oh, and for the first time in the series, Paul Janson suddenly has debilitating claustrophobia????

He has an amazing private jet that can fly at 35,000 miles above sea level. WTF?

Different narrator bummer

I’ve been listening to the series and Janson seemed perfectly depicted by narrator Scott Shepard. Calm, cool & collected. Smooth operator. This book in the series is completely changed. Janson sounds more like a “nervous Jack Ryan Jr.”. Very disappointing to me.
The action and personalities aren’t as easy to really care about with the different author as well. I got through it but it was a bummer because of the change in writer & narrator.

Narration did not match the quality of the writing

Narration did not match the quality of the writing. great story, but the narrator kinda made it feel like a high school reading in drama class. i liked it overall, but i should have loved it.

Painful Listening

The narrator was so bad, with no difference in voice between the characters, that I simply could not maintain interest. I'd like to hear the story performed by another narrator to tell whether or not the actual story was any good.

good narration

liked the narrator and the story definitely kept my attention. I would have liked a stronger ending maybe more of a twist

so so

The narration was not very good. The book had a great ending, but the first 2/3
was not cohesive at all. I suspect many readers will bail out. Just not on par with most Ludlum plots.

A decent read, but really only sets up what ever i

The story was not really Ludlum like. The narrator did Korean accents well, but over all I found the narration to be some what stilted and lacked engagement. The story had a lot of things going on, somewhat believable, but really a re-telling of a typical soy novel.

Good book-difficult narration

I enjoyed the story. However, the narration was a distraction for me. His voice timbre and dialects were fine, but he would take a breath after every two or three words. The rhythm and cadence of his character voices did not seem to change with the characters. I finally listened at 1.25 speed and was finally able to enjoy the rest of the story.

Dont waste your time

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

No, the narrator was terrible. It was a completely miserable attempt to portray Paul Janson, incredibly unbelievable. It was really hard to get into the story when Kevin had absolutely no feel for the tone of the story. Also, the new author doesn't come close to doing Robert Ludlum justice. The new backstory doesn't even match the previous books.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Kevin T. Collins?

Grant Blackwood

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No