Shadow Flight

A Novel

By: Joe Weber

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

From the bestselling author of DEFCON One comes an explosive techno-thriller.

While Congress debates the merits of continued funding for the stealth bomber, sinister forces have their own goals in mind. During a training exercise, a B-2 bomber disappears. When search efforts produce no evidence that the bomber crashed, the US Air Force has no choice but to acknowledge that one of its most secret and high-tech aircraft has been hijacked.

Recovery of the B-2 and its crew becomes the president's highest priority, and the Kremlin claims no knowledge of the missing aircraft. Finally, intelligence leads to what at first seems a very unlikely suspect: Cuba. But could the tiny nation pull off a theft of this magnitude? And what might its plans be for the highly sought-after aircraft? Getting the answers to these questions becomes the top-secret mission for CIA agent Steve Wickham, for without those answers, only one solution will remain: invasion. And if the US invades, World War III will certainly follow.

©2013 Joe Weber (P)2013 Blackstone Audiobooks

The Narrator must be from Boston...

Great story; horrible Narrator! Turn the speed up to 1.2 so he actually sounds literate!

Good story, fair narration

Well I enjoyed the story I was a little disappointed with the nearest. Overall the narration was OK the characters Austin sounded like Eeyore Winnie the Pooh. I realize that much of the book dealt with stressful situations, but I do not believe the professionalsInvolved in combat slight panic every time something happens. The narrator made it appear that the stressful situations were panic situation for the characters.

Good Book, Wrong Narrator

the story and the book are great. they keep you pretty engaged although it is a little tough with the narrator. he only has about five or six different voices to do and with this book having so many different big personalities they all start to sound the same after a while. kind of hard to keep up with who's who.

The premise of this book makes it an F

if the cowardly pilots would have just ditched the plane in the second chapter the whole story would have been wrapped up and done. Unfortunately that wasn't the case.

Good story, horrible narration

This is quite possibly the worst narration I’ve ever listened to. The over-exaggeration of accents to differentiate between characters was ridiculous. Half of the characters sounded like drunk ręt@rds, and one sounded like a drunken ręt@rd hick.

Laughable narration

The narrator is almost painfully slow, which is nothing compared to his laughable accents. These combined to be rather distracting.

find another

struggling to listen. lots of useless swearing. story drags from the start. finally gave up. pore vocabulary causes me wonder if author has little worth saying.

Old Scol

F15's, Fidel and Raul Castro, some old middle school stuff. Story was a bit different but solid. Seemed like the real stories. Mathews and the "fixer" stories were not developed thoroughly enough. Both had alot of underdeveloped possibilities but still very interesting. All the realistic grunting, groaning and stress during the hi G aerial maneuvering was surprising and different.

What a profoundly odd experience

The novel itself is all right, basically a discount Tom Clancy, but reasonable and enjoyable. If you're a fan of Clancy, you'll like this one.

But you might want to read it on your own.

First of all, Mr. Chris Andrew Ciulla reads at an excruciatingly low pace. I accelerated it to 1.35 speed and was contemplating bumping it to 1.4, even though I usually listen at 1.1.

That's not a big problem, though. You can adjust the speed to your preferences.

What is a big problem is the characters' voices. As long as Mr. Ciulla is just reading the narrative parts of the text, it works fine, he's a decent reader. But when it comes to the characters, it all becomes absurd to the point of being comedic. Theses voices would work well in a childrens' cartoon, especially a Hanna Barbera cartoon from the 1960s (like The Herculoids or some such), but not in a book like this.

To make matters even worse, he didn't research how to pronounce Russian names, which results in errors such as the name Voronteev being pronounced with an "ee" sound (like "bee" or "feel") instead of the correct "eh-yeh".

I do have to praise Mr. Ciulla, however, for doing a good job with simulating the strain in a person's voice under g-forces.

Story is good; narration isn’t.

The story itself is entertaining and interesting enough to be worth listening to, however the narration makes that difficult to do.