The Rapscallion Agency

The Rapscallion Agency, Book 1

De: Christof Laputka

Narrado por: a full cast

Set shortly after the events of the award-winning The Leviathan Chronicles, this spinoff series continues the adventures of its two youngest characters, Lisette Mainsabiles and Paul Kim (aka Cluracan) as they use their unique skills to start a business, navigate young love, and lovingly care for a cybernetic rat.

Having been raised by an immortal thief, Lisette’s experience as a cat burglar makes her confident she can handle any physical threat the pair might face. But as a computational savant and former underground hacker, Cluracan knows that analytical thinking can be better than acting impulsively. Sharing a misfit love for each other, they leave behind their lives in the U.S. to start a fledgling cybersecurity agency in Paris, France.

After converting a bakery van into their mobile hi-tech headquarters, Lisette and Cluaracan explore Paris by calling upon old acquaintances to help them find work for their new agency, But during a professional ‘audition’, Lisette and Cluracan are double-crossed, but manage to escape with a priceless research asset that makes them a target of a powerful international conglomerate, VeyTech Pharmaceutical.

As they try to decode the mystery in their possession, they have to stay alive as they are ruthlessly hunted by an assassin with a metal arm while figuring out who they can really trust to help them escape France.

Will Lisette and Cluracan end up as unfortunate pawns in a dangerous conspiracy, or will they be able to turn the tables on their foes and win back their freedom?

©2023 Christof Laputka (P)2025 Leviathan Audio Productions

DISAPPOINTING QUALITY NOT WORTH YOUR TIME OR MONEY

Good story idea: big money business behind technology conspiracy -- two unlikely good guy rogue characters (retired con & hacker) in the middle of heist must stop the bad guys.
Unfortunately the good story is lost in low quality, lame writing & poor execution/production.
Entertaining: Yes (but debatable if it was worth the price)

* Writing = lame, choppy, unrefined
* Storytelling = first half of story hard to follow, scene breaks & time jumps disrupt narrative flow, emotionally shallow & stereotypical characters
* Characters = 2 dimensional, shallow character development, extreme stereotyping especially in relationships & emotions
(Note: writer did capture the essence of sidekick you need but "should have dropped you in college" who is a jerk face, self absorbed video gamer that talks trash everyone, oblivious to others feelings, and ignores everyone else's life as a NPC.)

* Voice Acting = poor, accents were a nice story telling touch but were often too thick and hard to listen to
(Note: at ending some actors did capture emotional intensity in final action scene)
* Sound Mixing = overall bad, some character voices too loud and other strained to hear
(Note: listened on smart phone speakers; did not listen with headphones)
* Sound Editing = horrible
(Track/chapter 4 sounds like a cat ran over the editing board! Editing snippets mixed out of order, other tracks/voices overlayed making following story impossible! Literally gave me a headache & had to give up!)

* Dialogue Writing = weak
Many times the characters would repeat the same thing multiple times, making the conversation and the dialogue go no where. Often dialogue was choppy and emotionally shallow.
Other times the character would state already narrated known story facts for no reason -- I say "no reason" because everyone, characters & audience already knew it!