Eric A. Silver
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Bring Them Home
- Detective Karen Hart, Book 1
- By: D. S. Butler
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of Heighington is put on high alert—and not for the first time. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a previous disappearance are anything but coincidental. DS Hart is still reeling from a case she tried and failed to solve eighteen months ago, when a young woman vanished without a trace. She’s no nearer to the truth of what happened to Amy Fisher, but with two children missing now, too, the stakes have never been higher.
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Solid first book
- By Carla C. Galeano Ferreyra, David Tapia Cubillo on 10-18-18
- Bring Them Home
- Detective Karen Hart, Book 1
- By: D. S. Butler
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Predictable
Reviewed: 09-05-24
This was a rather predictable story, and scarcely worth the time it took to listen to it.
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Bonecrack
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. In the middle of the night, two masked men break into Neil Griffon’s home and abduct him. He quickly discovers that unless he agrees to their unreasonable demands, they will destroy his father’s precious horse and racing stable, and ultimately Neil himself. Returned to his father’s stables, he must find a way to bring down these criminals, because having to choose between his integrity and his life is no choice at all.
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Horses and Fathers
- By Markhov on 06-28-23
- Bonecrack
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
A Ride to Growth and Maturity
Reviewed: 06-26-24
A late night abduction leads to an unbelievable demand: “My son will ride your horse in the derby.” Never mind that Alessandro is barely eighteen and has next to no experience, His gangster father lives with the idea that he gives orders, and it is the task of everyone else to obey them.
The young Alessandro arrives at the stables all kitted out in his fancy riding gear and a sneer on his face, for he has inherited his father’s obnoxious ways, and throughout his young life, his father has given him everything he wanted. Everything except a sense of how the world really works. His desire to ride a horse in the Derby is all he needs, and he knows his father will make it happen.
Then Neil has to come to grips with the reality of the father’s threats to destroy his stables as one by one his horses develop broken legs and need to be put down. Could it be an accident? Indeed it could as these sorts of injuries happen all the time in the racing world, but small gifts are delivered which make clear that these were no accidental mishaps.
Yet Neil recognizes that the young Alessandro has talent, if only he were willing to recognize that his skills are not yet as great as he imagines them to be, and if he could only tone his arrogance down a peg or two.
Bit by bit, in a stunning finish marked by tragedy and triumph, Alessandro comes to realize that he does indeed have much to learn, as he embarks on a ride to growth and maturity, and that Neil is the man to teach him. The two grow together in the novel’s touching finish. Dick Francis at his best.
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The Last Trial
- McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers, Book 3
- By: Robert Bailey
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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McMurtrie’s old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgotten, broken woman as the killer. At the urging of the suspect’s desperate fourteen-year-old daughter, McMurtrie agrees to take the case.
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Absolutely one of the best legal thrillers!!
- By shelley on 05-09-18
- The Last Trial
- McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers, Book 3
- By: Robert Bailey
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
Inadequate at the Ending
Reviewed: 05-23-24
The writer attempts to compete with Tom Grisham in writing a fast paced legal thriller. The story moves along, somewhat ploddingly at times, and is inadequate at the ending, where nothing seems to make sense. Some of the characters are two-dimensional, and the murder is solved, or not, depending upon how the reader/listener regards it. Courtroom drama is always part of novels like this, but in this case, it falls somewhat flat. Throughout the story the reader wonders where the writer is going with all this, and the loose ends are tied together in a somewhat incomplete fashion.
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Red Metal
- By: Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV - USMC
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
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A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon....
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Excellent listen!
- By Jose G. Meras on 07-19-19
- Red Metal
- By: Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV - USMC
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
As realistic as possible
Reviewed: 07-19-23
This story is as realistic as possible, and let me waiting for the next chapter. From a martinet admiral, to the grunts who fight for every square inch of earth, this story had me following along, recalling my own days in combat. They don’t get much better than this.
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The Whole Truth
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Pender Associates is a shadowy organization that specializes in managing seemingly impossible situations for its clients. Sometimes, those services extend to managing - and creating - armed conflict.
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Great fast moving story
- By Karen on 07-12-08
- The Whole Truth
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
The whole truth is half a story
Reviewed: 07-15-23
I detest abridged stories, and this is no exception. What has been omitted exceeds what has been included, and the reader/listener has been victimized by the creators of half a story
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Dream Town
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs
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It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying.
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Wow! Old Hollywood at it’s peak…
- By shelley on 04-21-22
- Dream Town
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Brittany Pressley
Moving and Packs a Punch
Reviewed: 07-09-23
Archer is a first rate detective, a man who packs a punch, and receives a few himself. His analytical skills are what put him at the top of his trade, but there are times when he’s not quick enough to step out of the way. He’s a man with a strong ethical sense, one who will not take advantage of another, regardless of gender. And he knows what it is to have loved and lost, and this makes him a man of great sensitivity. This is a moving tale, and Archer is the one who has to live it.
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Calico Joe
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records.
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IN ORDER TO BE FAIR
- By Roger on 04-13-12
- Calico Joe
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
The Magic of Baseball
Reviewed: 06-14-23
With this novel, Grisham brings home the magic of baseball, the dreams of a boy, a tyrannical father who is a pitcher for the Mets, but who somehow never had time nor love for his son. Grisham makes it possible for us to hear and feel the jostling of the crowds, the smell of the refreshments, and the diamond spread out before him. From the first crack of the bat to a rising dream and the end of a career, e experience it all. A short book, but a must-read that is exactly as long as it needs to be to tell the entire story.
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The Atlantis Code
- A Novel
- By: Charles Brokaw
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
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A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically advanced, eerily enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and power...but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man. While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast.
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Atlantis-Still lost.
- By Placeholder on 09-05-19
- The Atlantis Code
- A Novel
- By: Charles Brokaw
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
Save Your Money
Reviewed: 05-28-23
I can only concur with the reader who said that this book was a childish attempt to play off the DaVinci Code. The latter was a skilled literary work while this book is a silly waste of time that I read only that I might have the opportunity to leave an honest review. I wanted to return the book for credit, but found that it was not possible. The plot was poorly conceived and badly put together. The reader has all the characters speaking with Russian accents, deeply basso and always dead wrong. Regardless of whether the characters were Italian, German or African, the reader seemed be unable to get the pronunciation right. They all sounded like Russians, and even Natashya, who was Russian, came across as stilted and phony. My advice is that prospective readers should save their money, unless they are given to dime-store novels and cheap pulp fiction.
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Conclave
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
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Extraordinary
- By Jean on 10-01-18
- Conclave
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Pope John VII Redux
Reviewed: 05-13-23
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The Pope, herein unnamed, reputed to be holy, but not that wise, perhaps even losing his faculties toward the end. Revered by some, reviled by others—mostly the arch traditionalists.
The Cardinals, 118 in all, some good, a few holy, some truly wicked steeped in simony, or even worse. They will gather to choose one of their number who will reign as the next pope. But one of them possesses an awesome secret, one so deep that if known would exclude him from the throne of Peter, and only one other cardinal knows his secret—he and the prior pope.
Can women be ordained to the priesthood? Many Catholics say they can, and should, but the church’s rules preclude this.
The secret is guessed by the readers, almost from the very beginning of the conclave, but it remains subdued until the very end. Catholic traditionalist will be shocked, and liberals will be pleased but as one liberal cardinal explains to the new pope, the secret may never come out until the new pope has passed on to the next world, and then, only his doctor will know. An exciting read, steeped in mystery and intrigue, and definitely worth reading.
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6.
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John Lee is GREAT!
- By David on 09-21-18
- The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
A True Spy Thriller
Reviewed: 07-06-22
Spy stories are, by their very nature, thrilling. This one is all the more so because every bit of it is true. But this spy didn’t spy for his own country; he spied for the enemy. And he didn’t do so because he wanted money, but because he believed in an ideal: democracy. From his first tentative approaches to his exposure by a mercenary, to his hair-raising escape, the excitement of this tale leaves us breathless at every turn. Read this book—or rather, listen to it on Audible, and you will gain a new appreciation for the meaning of freedom, and the sacrifices of those who have provided it to us.
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