The Others

By: Jeremy Robinson

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's Summary

To save a missing girl....

Dan Delgado is a private investigator. When it comes to finding cheating spouses, corporate thieves, or runaway teenagers, he’s unenthusiastic, and unmatched. As a former San Francisco detective, he misses more meaningful work, but he hasn’t had the heart for it since his wife’s death five years prior. That is, until a phone call from a distraught mother, an illegal immigrant who can’t go to the police, puts him on the hunt for a missing little girl. 

By the time he reaches the mother’s small home, she’s missing, too. The circumstances are strange, but when a team of heavily armed mercenaries arrive, Delgado is convinced there is more going on than a simple kidnapping. 

Joined by his wise-cracking elderly assistant, a gun-toting pastor, and a UFO enthusiast Uber driver, Delgado follows the clues west, to Colorado City, a town cleaved in two by the 37th parallel, also known as the UFO Highway. In a town infamous for fundamentalist Mormon cult activity, they uncover evidence of a massive child-trafficking ring whose ringleaders might not be human.

Delgado and crew are plunged into a dangerous world of corporate competition, UFO lore, and government cover-ups. While they hunt for answers, they’re pursued across the Southwest by high-tech mercs, brainwashed cults, and beings whose true identity has been concealed since 1947.

…he must risk the world.

UFOs and alien abductions remain some of the most hotly debated and mysterious subjects of the 21st century. In the decades since 1960, with reports of strange encounters on the rise, 13 million people have gone missing worldwide and never been found. The Others takes a fast-paced, unique, and moving look at the phenomenon that has fueled Jeremy Robinson’s imagination since several sightings, strange happenings, and visits with renowned UFO investigator, and family friend, Raymond Fowler.

©2018 Jeremy Robinson (P)2018 Jeremy Robinson

Action packed humor

There's so much to like about this book. The story is a bit cray-cray, but in a humorous adventure sort of way. It starts out relatively serious with Dan Delgado and his "elderly" (I use the term very loosely) assistant searching for a missing child, then turns into an all out cluster#$%. The characters are phenomenal... we should all have a Winnie in our lives! But I like Lindo, the Uber driver just as much, if not more.

R.C. Bray has an uncanny ability to portray the perfect tone in any character he reads, but in this particular instance its almost as if the story was written specifically to cater to his natural sarcasm. They could not have found a better fit.

Listeners beware, however. About halfway through Audible chapter 19 (verbally chapter 17, I think) the audio starts back at the beginning. it seems to only last the last half of that section, but I don't know if you miss any of the actual recording. When the next chapter starts, it seems to pick back up again.

Other than that, quite worthy of a credit.

33 of 33 people found this review helpful

way better than i expected!

Zipped right through the book and loved every moment of it. excellent characters, and, of course, excellent narrator!

6 of 6 people found this review helpful

Another great one

Jeremy Robinson keeps writing great books. He never disappoints. Can’t wait for the next adventure.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

A NEW TWIST ON UFOS

A great story. Very imaginative and who knew RC Bray could sing! Well worth my valuable credit. I think I'll listen to this again and soon.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

The Greys are NOT your friends!

I'm a Jeremy Robinson fan. Have been for some years. I love how he takes a fistful of conspiracies, urban legends, HARD and soft facts, and spins them up with his own unique twists to deliver one heck of a GREAT roller coaster of a Sci-Fi/Horror Action/Adventure ride. --- In THE OTHERS he takes on the whole gambet of UFO/Greys issues that will leave you wondering just how much of this is Robinson, and how much of this ~ just might be ~ "REAL"???
Though I really enjoyed the whole story, I gotta admit, I did get rather bored with The Mourning Former Cop bit. You just seem to see him featured in too many stories any more. So much so that it's hard to really work up any real sympathy for that type of character. = Way over used. --- Still, plenty of other unique characters. = A wise cracking senior citizen partner, a gun toting preacher, and an Uber driver! (LOL) -- And THAT'S the team that's going to save the world???
Hang on to your Tinfoil Hats!

7 of 8 people found this review helpful

Hope it turned in to a series

Great character and good story and of course RC Bray always brings the story to life. So if your in to sci-fi this would be a well spent credit.

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

Good Story, Great Narration!

Cattle mutilations, black helicopters, UFOs, little grey men with bug eyes, black unmarked SUVs; must be aliens! Sure, that's what it is … aliens. Just keep thinking that. The hero is a retired cop, now a P.I. on a missing persons case, looking for a missing little girl. A little undocumented girl. Bummer. Her mom says - wait! Her mom is missing too? Oh, no! Crazy driving, hot lead gun battles, close escapes, mind games, false leads, mysterious cell-phone calls, mind-controlled zombie cultists, close escapes … oh, I mentioned that before? Well there are LOTs of close escapes. Maybe, uh, too may? Where's the kid? Oh, lots of kids? Where are they? Who's got 'em? Why? Why are there black, unmarked SUVs chasing him? Why are there unmarked black helicopters chasing him? Why are there UFOs with little green men - uh, GREY men - chasing him? Why does his head ache so bad? Lots of action. A new kinda idea about UFOs. Interesting characters. Would be a five-star rating except for too many miraculous escapes. The narration by R. C. Bray is fantastic. I LOVE this guy's voice. I could listen to him all day - oh, wait, I DO listen to him all day! He has the quintessential world-weary cop/soldier voice, and terrific alternative voices for portraying kids, women, zombie cultists, and aliens. Three thumbs up! Recommended! (Mike Riley)

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

when is an alien an alien

Truly enjoyed this book, narration included. The characters were engaging and the story line a delightful twist on the alien idea. Well worth the credits.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

it's got to be some of his best work

it's a tear jerker at the end, action packed all the way up to it

8 of 10 people found this review helpful

Exciting

The audio was Exciting & fast paced with a believable ending.
I would recommend this audio to those who like action !

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Great sci-fi adventure

As with Jeremy Robinson books the characters are extremely likeable and you buy into them from the start, couple this with Brays narration and you have perfection. The only reason it isn’t a 5 star rating is that I feel it could have been longer, but that’s only for selfish reasons. I would have like to have read more interaction with the characters, there are journeys that could have carried that out perfectly, but instead they get skipped. It’s not detrimental to the story though. A great listen and had me wanting more and adding more of Robinson’s books to my wish list.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Best work yet!

I've listened to several of the author and narrator's collaboration's, and can honestly say that this is outstandingly their best yet! Plausible story uniting sci-fi with everyday life, thrilling and entertaining, thouroughy recommended. 10/10

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Cant turn it off!

Very good plot, and very well written. So many twists and turns, I didn't not expect half the stuff happening. R C Bray has done yet another cracking good narration. I actually purchased this book because he narrated it, and very glad I did.
Far better than the synopsis, if you want a book you cant put down, this is it.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Simply Brilliant

By far the best book yet, an emotional rollercoaster that will tear at your heartstrings - funny, action, Sci-fi, love story, just brilliant!

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

good take on an old sci fi theme

reminiscent of kings IT towards the end but more enjoyable if somewhat too light humoured in places considering the subject matter. interesting and thought provoking take on the ancient alien theme. too much action tho. the story could have been more believable if there were less suspicion arousing shoot outs.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

bit formulaic but highly enjoyable

I really enjoyed this one, the humour and tension keep you well entertained. I highly recommend this one if you like your sci-fi on the lighter side!

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Silly

Well read sci fi that wasn’t too sure about itself in the genre - it would have been better as a straight detective story. The point of good sci fi is that even in fantasy land, the story has to make sense and be believable, I’m sorry to say that although I listened to it because I like the narrator, this was a load of codswallop!! Left me feeling ‘really?’ 🙄

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

A truly brilliant story

I didn't know what to expect from this book. But it is enthralling, touching, funny and thought provoking. A must for any audible book fan.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

R.C Bray magic again

Takes a while to get going but when it's full on. R.C.Bray as always is brilliant, started buying books on the basis of the narrator as a pose to the writer his that good.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Wasted story

Lots of potential in the storyline, but felt very slapdash and no coherent plot development. Grab another book read by this narrator who always does a god performance even with this type of sloppy writing.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful