The Dark Tide

By: Andrew Gross

Narrated by: Melissa Leo

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge-fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of 18 years is dead.

On that same day, a suspicious hit-and-run accident leaves a young man dead in Karen's hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut. Ty Hauck, a detective, becomes emotionally caught up in the case and finds a clue that shockingly connects the two seemingly unrelated events.

Months later, two men show up at Karen's home digging into Charles's business dealings. Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing - and the trail points squarely to Charles. With doubt suddenly cast on everything she has ever known, Karen, with Hauck, steps into a widening storm of hedge-fund losses, international scams, and murder. And as the investigations converge, these two strangers touched by tragedy are pulled into a deepening relationship and unwittingly open the door to a twisted - and deadly - conspiracy.

With its breakneck pacing, plentiful twists, compelling characters, and abundant heart, The Dark Tide confirms Andrew Gross' place as a master storyteller at the top of his game.

©2008 Andrew Gross (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"While the reader will occasionally see the next drop, tunnel or curve looming far ahead, the roller-coaster thrills are still there in abundance." ( Publishers Weekly)

Why curse?

Why was the wife cursing? It made no sense.
And what in the world was the sex about in this book. Ill timed, and made no sense according to the emotion of the scenes and points in the story.
Very disappointed in this solo effort. I was drawn to it because he co wrote a book with Patterson, but clearly he is not ready. Gross tries to force twists and gets repetitive and overly descriptive. I did not have that big of a problem with the narrator, she is okay, it is the story that drives you nuts rather than the voice.

Potential mystery thriller wash out by drama.

The concept is good, it had great potential; I think that is why I was so disappointed. A well to do husband, family man, nice guy gets caught up is some bad business with the wrong people. When the train he is riding on is the target of terrorist he takes the opportunity to stage his demise and escape, leaving his family and everyone thinking the worst. The seemingly unrelated and accidental hit and run deaths add to the mystery. The shady business partners and the other subplots had me hopeful. But I never found the mystery and suspense. The detective who is suspicious ends us involved with the widow is too predictable. The writing is good but unfortunately the author never really makes it believable. Add to this the over dramatic situations and I ended up just wanting to get through the book, fast forwarding often. Did I mention over dramatic, the book should be in the drama or soap opera section. Good plot, good theme, just poor execution.

story was predictable too much repetitive cussing

this is the first time I've written anything negative about a book on Audible but I found myself getting angry because every character said the same cuss word again and again regardless of the situation. it was redundant and certainly not very creative to keep hearing it and over and it wasn't necessary it detracted greatly from the book . I'll never listen to this author again