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The Investigator
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,887
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,444
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,405
By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty’s ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just….NO
- By WithoutaMark on 04-14-22
- The Investigator
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Excellent successor
Reviewed: 04-26-22
I have always enjoyed the Letty character, but her career-starting story is a good one. Well written, excellent story and as usual a good performance from Richard Ferrone. If you like Sandford, you will like this one.
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Uncontrolled Spread
- Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
- By: Scott Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Story5 out of 5 stars 194
Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak
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2 out of 5 stars
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Save yourself the time and $
- By Travis on 09-21-21
- Uncontrolled Spread
- Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
- By: Scott Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Perhaps one of the most important books
Reviewed: 04-16-22
The book does a good job of dissecting the COVID pandemic and our failure in responding to it. Unlike a lot of books, Gottlieb comes forth with solutions that I hope leadership works toward. I enjoy him on TV and the book does not disappoint, but if you have a short attention span you may tire out before he gets finished. His presentation if fairly even handed.
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No Country for Old Men
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,462
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,949
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,940
Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, engrossing, frightening.
- By P. Giorgio on 07-27-13
- No Country for Old Men
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
I have found a new author
Reviewed: 04-16-22
I suspect McCarthy is an acquired taste. The book is quirky but interesting. The movie did a good job of capturing the book. I recently saw The Road, and will go back an listen to or read the book.
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The Dark Hours
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,247
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,231
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,175
There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much Covid; not enough Bosch
- By sdhaase1 on 11-13-21
- The Dark Hours
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
Love these books
Reviewed: 04-15-22
Love the stories and the narration. Titus Welliver was meant to play Bosch. He is sort of running out of time. They may have him working out of a nursing home one of these years. Maybe it is time to write about cases he would have had earlier.
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Treachery
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 663
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Story4 out of 5 stars 605
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian double agent who’d been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt. They failed. The Russian died at the hands of a shadowy assassin known only by the nickname Lennon. Now everything has changed for Bourne. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Bourne is a lone operative, working in the shadows for Treadstone, when he’s called in for a new mission in London.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Scott brick ruins another one
- By Patrick Day, Jr on 08-24-21
- Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Treachery
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Vintage Bourne
Reviewed: 04-15-22
I read all the original books and this was consistent with them. Loved the movies, but always questioned the psychological problems that Bourne has and in this case the brainwashing of Nova. Scott Brick does his usual best job and the story ends well but overall the story is a little far fetched.
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 190,773
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 174,402
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Story5 out of 5 stars 173,850
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
First Contact
Reviewed: 04-15-22
Interesting story about the potential for the end of the worlds...On a project to save the earth contact is made with life on other planets. The interaction between them is well done. Although long this novel kept me interested. Good ending as well.
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- By: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David A. Sinclair PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,444
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,361
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,327
From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By Nikolai B.G on 09-13-19
- Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- By: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David A. Sinclair PhD
if you care about your life you will read this.
Reviewed: 12-06-21
Interesting account of scientific investigation of aging and health. curing aging avoids diseases common to us.
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A Cool Breeze on the Underground
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,952
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,369
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,351
Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook, from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room. Now it's payback time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Read
- By Cody on 05-18-15
- A Cool Breeze on the Underground
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Interesting Early Novel
Reviewed: 09-10-20
I listened to this novel after listening/reading 5 of his later books. This was a little lighter than some of the later novels. Humorous at times serious at other times. The main character relies much more on cunning rather than violence, although he can get violent on occasion. Performance was excellent!
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Dead Eye
- A Gray Man Novel
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,640
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,228
Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows - to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed him, he exposes himself to something he’s never had to face before. A killer who is just like him. Code-named Dead Eye, Russell Whitlock is a graduate of the same ultra-secret Autonomous Asset Program that trained and once controlled Gentry.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Quit!
- By bebe on 07-16-16
- Dead Eye
- A Gray Man Novel
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Good story, but some errors
Reviewed: 03-28-20
I have not quite finished listening to the presentation, but the story is engaging, There are a couple of errors: He once refers to an AK74 (should be 47) and talks of raising his sighting when aiming at a target that is closer (he should be aiming lower).
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Neon Prey
- A Prey Novel, Book 29
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,750
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,225
Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the US Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy - it's his boss they want - but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lots of moving parts! Outstanding!!
- By shelley on 04-24-19
- Neon Prey
- A Prey Novel, Book 29
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Just OK
Reviewed: 05-19-19
An interesting police procedural, but not up to Sandford standards. Maybe I have just heard too many of them. Lucus is wounded and we take a few months out of the story for no particular reason...apparently, none of the others did anything while he was recovering. Everyone seems a little older and more tired. To his credit, Sandford has allowed the characters to age and mature. Perhaps it's just that I am not ready for the characters to change.
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