Whitefish

A Brad Kelso Novel

By: Russell Myers

Narrated by: Brian Callanan

Brad Kelso spends most of his time these days building decks and fences, or remodeling bathrooms. The government agency he used to work for rehires him to locate a killer on the island of Kodiak, Alaska.

Brad's mission is simple; he must locate the person who murdered his friend. The person who the agency calls "Whitefish".

©2022 Russell Myers (P)2024 Russell Myers

"A snuggle of sloths, a sloth of bears."

Twelve years after the murder of his friend, Brad Keller was building a fence for his neighbour when a message arrived from the Agency. His skill as a Pathfinder Tracker was needed - to find his friend's killer believed to be in Alaska. But times have changed since he last worked for the Agency ten years ago and the help he re!did upon was simply not going to happen.

Whitefish is a cleverly constructed story, interesting and, at times, unexpected, with a very human main protagonist telling the story from his first person perspective, bringing an immediacy to the action. Brian Callahan captures this in his excellent narration, becoming Brad Keller as he pretends to be a photographer in his attempts to find his .an. A good performance with excellent pacing, modulation and character voices.

I received a freely gifted complimentary copy of Whitefish, at my request, from the rights holder, via Free Audiobook Codes. Thank you. It was a very enjoyable thriller, and one I can highly recommend.

entertaining

A thoroughly entertaining novel. A manhunt in Alaska. A well plotted novel with memorable characters.
I received this audiobook from Free Audiobook Codes for a review.

Agency Protocol Seven

4.25 out of 5 stars

This is one of those books that I started listening to without reading anything about it. I don’t think the description would really throw you off the scent of the storyline too much – but it was also fun going into a mystery/thriller like this without knowing basically anything.

I knew that Brian Callanan was narrating it, and he absolutely nailed both Whitefish and the character of Brad Kelso. I love it when you can feel the narrator becoming the main character in a story. And Callanan really took Kelso to another level with this first book.

The story itself was exciting and really kept my attention. I can’t go into too much for fear of spoiling the story but the setting of this one really set it off for me. I love Alaska and I think the combination of remote with the style of writing really took Whitefish to another level.

Overall, a really enjoyable book featuring a great main character that I definitely want to read more from. Myers did a great job creating enough mystery and intrigue that I was trying to guess throughout (and I wasn’t able to figure it out til near the end). A nice combination of thriller and mystery with a few other genres thrown in for good measure.

Alaska is a great place to get lost!

I enjoyed the twists and turns in the story and the fortitude of the main character.

Awesome story

This book is so fun to listen too. I can't wait for the next one.