Wrong Town: A Mark Landry Novel

By: Randall H Miller

Narrated by: Steve Carlson

Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

An Amazon Best Seller in the US, UK, Canada, & Australia!

Wrong Town fuses the worlds of special operations, counterintelligence, police work, and small-town drama into a gripping adventure full of characters with monumental responsibilities and real-life troubles.

Follow 39-year-old veteran Mark Landry as he returns home, having retired from an American government black ops unit. In a small town north of Boston with a rich history, Landry finds that the only girl he has ever loved, Luci Alvarez, is now an extraordinary policewoman at the precarious center of a community's struggles with change, amid a powder keg of fear and paranoia not seen since colonial times. Landry seeks to convince Officer Alvarez that he is home for good as he learns the astonishing answer to a lifelong mystery. Landry is eager to begin his new life, but events threaten to expose disturbing details of his past that would send shock waves through the country and sabotage the only relationship he cares about.

As terrorist attacks and targeted mass shootings increasingly litter American soil, two new realities come into focus: The war on terrorism's geographic center of gravity is shifting, and Landry's new life is beginning to look a lot like the career he left behind.

©2015, 2016 Randall H. Miller, LLC (P)2016 Randall H. Miller, LLC

Very good!

Great story teller. Looking for more from this author! Interesting narrator, haven't heard a read from narrator with older voice than the characters.

Worth while

I will listen to any story read by Steve Carlson (and or written by Randall Miller). Just as I am willing to do by those narrated by Ray Porter, Scott Brick, XE Sands, Jay Snyder, and Barry Eisler.

Well Rounded Story

I have to admit I was unsure how I felt about this book for the first 20+ chapters. The author spent a good bit of the book providing character information; which is fine except when a book is marketed as an action thriller. However, when the action finally began it never quit. From that point forward I never put it down; I just had to know what would happen next. The author also did a great job letting the reader savour the shaming of public figures more interested in furthering their careers than with the safety and reputation of the people of the United States. Looking forward to the next book by this author.

Black Ops hero

Good story about terrorists attacking small venues in U.S. I would have liked a little more action. It seemed a lot of the story took place "off stage" so we heard what happened but didn't get to read about it.

Every new book is NOT "the Next Reacher / Rapp"...

Not every new action/terrorist author/character is "the next Reacher / Rapp blah blah" .... THIS ONE is pretty darn close. I really enjoyed this one - the narrator is fine - NOT Ray Porter or Joe Barrett - but fine. Yeah, there are a lot of chapters but so what?

I see there is a Book #2. If it is nearly this good, I'll be ready for #3.

Outstanding!

During the entire read I couldn't wait to see how all the stories came together. I'm ready for the next one!

Well written and well told!

This is just one great selection all round. The characters are very well developed, and for the most part you have either and instant like or dislike for the character...trust issues with these characters are developed in an instant also.
So many of the people in this book are amazingly similar to a few people we have all met at one point or another in our own lives, and I guess it is so easy to relate to the story.
Basically our main guy was adopted and went through a local school under the radar , joined the military upon graduation, and now the adoptive mom has passed away.
Returning to hold the funeral, and decide if he is going to retire from the service, and he runs across the high school sweetheart.
There seems the town has gone through drastic changes in the last 20 years, and there are many explosive issues going on like: Bad cops, crooked Feds, gang activities, terrorist, and alcohol abuse.
Maybe our hero came home to the wrong town.

I think this book might have the potential to become a modern day classic.
Hope you enjoy this book also

Great

Nothing better than when a book has a bunch of little stories and you think you know how they are going to come together, but when it does, you're totally surprised. This book did that for me. Sounds like the start of a pretty good series. Looking forward to next book.

A Grand Slam

New author Miller has knocked it out of the park. It is rare that I review a book. The great authors you already know and most of the new ones are okay but not great. Add Randall Miller to your great list and have a listen!

His character development of Mark Landry and this plot, leaves you waiting for round two. I'm waiting Mr. Miller....

A Good Page Turner

I enjoyed this book...didn't want to put it down, but there were some major problems. First, the chapters were too short; there were over 100 chapters. It seemed like the author began a new chapter when he should have begun
a new paragraph. It was distracting and choppy.
I enjoyed the multiple stories and how they came together, but it seemed like the author just got tired at the end. Instead of having the final action unfold as it happened, he just summarized what should have been the climax of the story.
The narrator was ok, except he didn't do justice to the female voices.
Despite these criticisms, I did like this book and look forward to more from this writer.