The Rift

The Rift, Book 1

De: Douglas E. Richards, Joshua T. Calvert

Narrado por: Adam James Conner

A coming interdimensional war. A race against time. A thrill ride like no other.

Multimillion-copy bestselling authors Douglas E. Richards and Joshua T. Calvert team up for the first time to deliver an explosive, high-stakes science-fiction thriller, one that will leave you breathless.

Deep in Antarctica, two researchers find an enigmatic black sphere suspended in the heart of a huge crater. Neither man is ever seen again.

Decades later, reality fractures. A Manhattan skyscraper vanishes into thin air. An airplane crashes in the Sahara Desert—its existence defying logic. Across the globe, breathtaking technology and mysterious artifacts appear, all leading to one chilling truth: a parallel Earth is breaching the boundary between realities. And with every artifact that crosses over, the fabric of existence tears further apart.

Enter Dr. James Barron, a man haunted by his past who is thrust into a fight he didn't choose. As secret organizations and shadowy forces battle to control the growing breach, Barron becomes humanity's reluctant champion. Can he stop an invasion from a world bent on conquest? Or will the widening rift doom both Earths to annihilation?

The Rift is the electrifying first entry in a trilogy of epic science-fiction thrillers.

©2025 Douglas E. Richards (P)2025 Podium Audio

Interesting storyline and holds your interest.

Didn’t like the way the survival from the airplane fall was portrayed- there’s no way it could have happened, especially since James was so far behind leaving the plane. And then they both landed uninjured?!

Good performance, cliche story

While the reader was good and able to convincingly switch between accents, the story started off with an interesting premise before relying on cliches and characters acting extremely unbelievably and unconvincingly. Some of the prose was overwrought and it took me out of what could have been an entertaining story.

Entertaining!

It's been something different, adventures, and new twist and turns just when something makes since to get ya rethinking. Definitely a good listen and well performed from author and voice acted.

Easy Summer Read

I liked this book. I’d just read 6 other books for the 2nd time …
2 trilogies in a complicated set of sci-fi novels, the kind of books you want to take in slowly and carefully to absorb the intricate subplots and richly layered character development.

I bought The Rift as an easy summer beach read, something to casually listen to while driving and walking in the park.

The Rift was enjoyable - no thinking required, no original concepts or characters to ponder, like listening to your favorite decade of pop music on the radio.

So many of us sci-fi readers dream of writing books in this genre. I’d be thrilled to be able to write a page turner like The Rift.

Great potential, slow delivery

This is neither the best nor the worst book I've listened to. The delivery is slow and details of fighting is too specific (type of punch, etc). Character Dev. is slow and shallow as well. Narration is good....I hope the other books of the series are better.