Termination Orders

By: Leo J. Maloney

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

In the tradition of bestsellers by Robert Ludlum and Vince Flynn, Termination Orders introduces Dan Morgan, a retired black-ops agent who must return to duty to thwart a deadly international conspiracy.

Once a trained killer for the CIA, Dan Morgan has built a new life for himself. But when he receives a desperate plea from his former black-ops partner - reportedly killed in a foreign battle zone - he flies in to help. It should be a routine mission, extracting a human asset from the region, but it’s not - it’s an ambush. Now Morgan is running for his life, with crucial evidence in his possession. With his contacts dead and his family in danger, Morgan must take on a full-scale conspiracy in the highest echelons of a vast global network that plays by its own rules.

Leo J. Maloney spent over thirty-five years in black ops, accepting highly secretive missions that would put him in the most dangerous hot spots in the world. Since leaving that career, he has had the opportunity to try his hand at acting in independent films and television commercials. He has ten movies to his credit, both as an actor and behind the camera as a producer, technical advisor, and assistant director.

©2012 Leo J. Maloney (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Leo J. Maloney is the new voice to be reckoned with. Every word of Termination Orders rings with the authenticity that can only come from an insider. This is one outstanding thriller!” (John Gilstrap, New York Times bestselling author)

“For fans of spy thrillers seeking a bit of realism mixed into their novels, Termination Orders will prove to be an excellent and recommended pick.”( Midwest Book Reviews)

GOD AWEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you could sum up Termination Orders in three words, what would they be?

aweful,aweful,aweful.

Has Termination Orders turned you off from other books in this genre?

no

What didn’t you like about John Pruden’s performance?

He reads like a two year old. No flow. But I guess with the material he was reading from.....

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

It had some exciting parts. Not in the Vince Flynn catergory though.

Any additional comments?

Maybe Mr Maloney's next book will be better.

Very Good

I really enjoyed listening to this book, there were many times I didn't want to put it down. Was wanting more of the story. Excellent read/listening experience.

Very good

I fully enjoyed both the story and the narration. I found it to be fully of excitement and engaging.

Entertaining Story

I found the story entertaining and the characters well developed. The story line had just enough twists to make it interesting. Overall, a good listen.

Average at best

This story lacks the detail of the great writers of this genre. The story has little depth and is very predictable. The narration is quite poor which only detracts further from the book. Overall would not recommend.

Not bad

Saw many negative reviews and almost did not listen to this book. Ignore them. The book is entertaining and the narration is not “awful” it’s decent. The language is best of any book I have listened in this genre.
Here is my take: an entertaining listen, decent narration a good story. Not the very best but absolutely waaaay better than lots of other books in the genre.
The story is predictable but the flashbacks are not disorienting at all.
My favorites in order and the Grey Man, Dewey Andreas, Mitch Rapp and a long way back is Jack Ryan Jr.
This book falls between Mitch Rapp and Jack Ryan.
I hope neither the author nor the narrator are discouraged by the uncalled for negative comments by “professional listeners” .

Quite good….

Characters were good and plot… always like action/espionage type audio books…. Defiantly worth a listen

Exciting story with twist and turns

We listened to this on a long car ride. It was an exciting story with plenty of action and adventure.

Never Ending

I am new to Audible so the free titles may all be bad to marginal. I have listened to one freebies though that was good. Dissapointed in this book. Anyways Spoiler alert - central theme is a CIA spy is murdered in Afghanistan. His buddy, another CIA spy, comes out of early retirement to finish the work to get to the bottom of a conspiracy involving contract special ops. There is the beginning of a decent story building where the buddy goes to Afghanistan to retrieve a source with good intel but then in pursuit he is killed, oops, plus the local guide, who I liked and provides some comic relief is also killed. Our man’s response - sorry, my mistake - oops again. Two characters important to the setup blip are gone. There was a lot of potential but all the sudden our man is back in the States and a little while later our original dead spy shows up having faked his death and comes back to states through some convuluted route described in the wave of a hand. But we have several chapters to go. I never finished out of boredom and confusion. I could go on but it is not worth the electrons (paper) it is written on. I had to ignore the narrator’s female voices - he tried but it sounded like a parody of a man doing a whinny woman. Ugh I have spent too much time writing this.

A little slow

Like many other “spy” novels starts slow and comes to an end in a couple chapters.