The Power Couple

De: Alex Berenson

Narrado por: Steven Weber, Marin Ireland

From number-one New York Times best-selling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep.

Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs - Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app.

However, the Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their 20th wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway.

They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course of a single weekend, the Unsworths will do everything possible to find her - as Kira herself discovers just how far she’ll go to break free of the trap that’s been set for her. And even as Rebecca and Brian come together for Kira, they realize their marriage is more tenuous than they realized.

The Power Couple is both a fast-paced, globe-trotting espionage novel full of surprising twists and a nuanced look at modern marriage - the challenges of balancing career, parenthood, sex, and love.

©2021 Alex Berenson. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

He’s done it again.

America’s preeminent thriller writer has come out with a nasty, fantastic bit of darkness. As much an autopsy of a troubled marriage as a straight ahead kidnapping plot this book does not lack for surprises.

A great and earned ending.

Thoroughly enjoyable

Not my usual genre, but this one did pack a punch. Several twists and turns with a few that surprised me. Will definitely try another book by Alex Berenson.

The Power Author

Second book by AB, this one has some great twists. AB seems to have a fair amount of knowledge of and insight into the intricacies of federal intelligence agencies and military operations.
This book was good to the end.

Fast paced thriller

Good narration
Fast paced thriller — at times a little predictable but such is the genre

The ending

It was too slow moving until towards the end. Steven Webber was excellent though. Thanks

Great rainy day read

I did not think I would like the book the first chapter in, but by the second chapter I was hooked.

It is interesting and thought provoking, moves at a good speed and the ending was a surprise.

It’s lit

So good. I love thrillers and this one is in another level! A must listen!

You have to stick with it.

I have read all of Berenson's fiction books and in particular liked the John Well's stories. This one is different and the only reason that I stuck with it beyond the halfway point was because Berenson wrote it. However the first half was so slow moving I almost gave up on it. Once I got into the second half it moved quickly and turned out to be a really good book. I gave it four stars because of all the time spent telling stories about the characters which did not fit so well into the final half of the book.

Shocked

A great thriller and truly unexpected, usually mid way through the book I can guess the ending but this was full of roller coasters.

Didn’t buy it…

Ok there are spoilers in this comment!
I understand how they were setting up the husband throughout the book to be a person who at times didn’t have the appropriate human reactions that he should have. I agree. that he might be a person who could betray his spouse and country… but all charachters agree that he was an amazing dad, he raised the kids! No way he would let his baby girl just suffer out there!
Other than that huge problem for me… I really enjoyed it!