• The Echelon Vendetta

  • A Novel
  • By: David Stone
  • Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
  • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (1,028 ratings)

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The Echelon Vendetta

By: David Stone
Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
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Publisher's summary

Micah Dalton isn't paid to ask questions. He's a "cleaner", a CIA fixer sent in to mop up the mess when an agent or situation goes bad. But when his close friend and mentor Porter Naumann turns up dead in an idyllic Tuscan hill town, an apparent suicide, Dalton's curiosity gets the best of him.

Naumann's death puts Dalton on a collision course with a killer who has a penchant for intricate knife-work and Native American mysticism, a sadist who is killing ex-CIA agents. The victims are hard-nosed field men whose only link to one another seems to be a global surveillance operation called Echelon. The murders appear to be acts of retribution. But for what?

An elegant, original, and chillingly suspenseful journey through the darkest alleys of international espionage, The Echelon Vendetta will keep you enthralled right up to its final, supremely satisfying twist.

©2007 DavidStoneBooks (P)2007 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., and Recorded Books LLC. All rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"Vivid characters and spellbinding, heart-pounding, hallucinogenic plotting.... You'll love this book." (Ridley Pearson)

"Well-written, intelligent and sometimes funny...show[s] us what life is really like on the front lines." (Washington Post)

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Worst Listen...

This had to be the worst audio book I ever tried to listen to. I kept trying to like the book, or at least like the main character and couldn't. I love espionage books like Ludlum et al but this wasn't even close. It was wierd, gruseome and dragged on interminably. May try to finish listening at some point if I'm ever bored enough but I doubt it.

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Terrible

i have no idea how this book can be rated so high. i actually forced myself to finish it just to see how bad it would end. it's part horror story, thriller, & spy novel - yet misses on all fronts. time doesnt add up, the main character is truly dumb and unbelievable, and the native american bent is silly. a truly horrible listen. AVOID

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Adjective Man

The prose in this book had so many over-blown descriptions that I lost interest many times. The story was dis-jointed and too many loose ends were left open. If I had it to do over, I wouldn't.

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terrible

This book had nothing thrilling about it. The plot was slow and uneventful. The characters were under-developed and not likable. The narration was flat, slow, and uninteresting. Ugh.

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