The Others

By: Jeremy Robinson

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

 

• Number one Audible.com Best Seller
• Winner: Independent Audiobook Award for Best Science Fiction - 2019
• Winner: Voice Arts Award for Best Science Fiction - 2019

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.

The Others Didn’t Disappoint

My favorite sci-fi books are the ones that seem believable, those that are based on a premise (like aliens). Books that seems a bit out there but are so well done you occasionally forget that you’re reading fiction. They’re so unsettling that you get a bit nervous. Jeremy Robinson’s novel The Others is one of those books.

The Others combines all of the things that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a bit with a unique take on alien origins, a pinch of corruption, great imagery detailing the landscape of the southwest, and a number of honorable people determined to find answers and protect the ones they care about most in this world.

Robinson drew me in right away with his characterization of private investigator Dan Delgado and his elderly (yet feisty) longtime assistant Wini. Both characters are immediately likable. They are fiercely loyal to each other and have secrets that create some intrigue, a trend that continues throughout the book as additional characters are introduced.

The Others opens with an apparent abduction that felt different from a stereotypical alien abduction and had me wondering if I was being duped. Was it a parental kidnapping, trafficking, or something otherworldly? What was the motive? Where is the child? The answers to these questions come slowly as the story progresses, with a thickening plot and building mystery.

RC Bray’s narration was as I’ve come to expect from him–spot on. His tone and pace paired well with the book’s first-person narrative and was a great fit for The Others’ protagonist, Dan.

If you’re searching for a story about short (or extremely tall), grey extraterrestrials with disproportionately large heads, huge black eyes, and flying saucers, this book is not for you. If you’re interested in a fresh take on aliens, with a healthy dose of conspiracy, a trafficking ring with connections to a fundamentalist cult, and some unlikely do-gooders to cheer on (along with your obvious hero, the private investigator), take a listen, I don’t think The Others will disappoint.

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)

Silly

I was intrigued by the premise but the story jumped the shark early on with unending gun battles, implausibly incompetent bad guys, and by the time they got to the FLDS compound and yet another gun battle, I got tired of it. Too much. Maybe this would be better as a film but as a book is was silly. Also got tired of the hero wangsting about his dead wife. It all felt overdone. Like teen fanfic.

Where do I start?

It is hard to know where to start when reviewing this book. I am torn between the wonderful narration of R. C. Bray and the disappointing story line of The Others. This is science fiction book and I expect to have to suspend my beliefs a bit, but this book required far more than that and I was just incapable of disassociating myself from the real world enough to be able to adjust to the story line.

What starts out as a case of an abducted child turns into a story about real and imagined aliens, ancient civilizations, mind control, self guilt and a serious case of animus toward the LDS church. I am not a member of that church but I found the story line involving the church so offensive that I almost stopped reading the book. I have known many fine people who were members of the church or who had family members of that church and never heard of or saw anything like the behavior described in this book. I also found the writing inelegant and the story line confused with a tendency to go off on tangents. I feel torn between feeling that being able to finish this book was a personal triumph, considering how disjointed I felt the book to be, especially the end, and the feeling that I could have saved myself 5 or 6 hours if I had just given up.

What made the book worth finishing was the wonderful narration of RC Bray, but he has to deal with the material he is given, and I do not feel that the story was worth his talents.

It Grabed Me and Never Let Go

R.C. Bray as a narrator is tops...just impossible to top!

Maybe you are like me...when I am shopping for a title, I go straight to the bad reviews.

After reading over the publisher's plotline summary, I read the negative reviews but was compelled to get this book anyway. Granted the strong reviews far outweighed the bad but I just went back to reread those bad reviews and wondered if they were the author's next door neighbor in a dispute over a noisy dog perhaps.

In short, the book was great. In fact, I assume the bad reviewers must have read another book altogether.

Get it! Read it! You will love it!

Despite good reviews, I couldn't finish this book

As at least one other reviewer has noted, the characters are quite on-dimensional and the plot is just not all that interesting. For a while, the dry humor carried me along, but that just is not enough.

way better than i expected!

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

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!

Meh at it's finest

I chose this book because it was a sci-book narrated by RC Bray. Unfortunately, the pair couldn't overcome the story. The story wasn't compelling, had a predictable storyline, and undeveloped characters. Better luck next time.

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?’ 🙄

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.

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

not a sequel

this is not a sequel to infinity.

it's a stand-alone book based on an ex detective become private detective. involving aliens telepass searching for the missing children.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.