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Livia Lone
- A Livia Lone Novel, Book 1
- By: Barry Eisler
- Narrated by: Barry Eisler
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,627
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,249
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,246
Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; abused by the men who trafficked them; marooned in America...the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason. Livia has never stopped looking. And she copes with her failure to protect her sister by doing everything she can to put predators in prison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a heartbreaker that makes u want 2 hit someone!
- By shelley on 10-27-16
- Livia Lone
- A Livia Lone Novel, Book 1
- By: Barry Eisler
- Narrated by: Barry Eisler
A knock off of the girl with the dragon tattoo
Reviewed: 03-04-25
Graphically, violent, sometimes genuinely disturbing, the heroin part of the story was a little thin. Obviously an important topic and terrifying cultural phenomenon, but this novel made me a little bit uneasy in the way it approached the subject matter.
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Danger Close
- A Breed Thriller, Book 1
- By: Cameron Curtis
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 746
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 742
Ex-Delta Force sniper Breed has spent most of his life at war and now he's trying to make some time for peace. But when a veteran from his old unit is murdered in El Paso, Breed feels duty-bound to bring the killer to justice. A feeling that only grows stronger when his friend's widow and son are also murdered. As he uses all his specialist skills to uncover the truth, Breed finds himself working with some unlikely allies - a devious CIA operative, and a determined Latina reporter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Curtis joins my favorite author list!!!
- By shelley on 01-07-22
- Danger Close
- A Breed Thriller, Book 1
- By: Cameron Curtis
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
Great! Violent, but great!
Reviewed: 09-10-24
This story really clicked. Moved quickly, found a few original themes.... Not a "hollywood ending", for sure. I have to understand why the narrator doesn't pronounce Fayetteville the way we do in NC. He pronounces it in the traditional French, as in Marquis de Lafayette. Regionally, as any SOTF operator would know, it's pronounced FAY-IT-VILLE. LOL
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Alien: Colony War
- By: David M. Barnett
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 615
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Story4 out of 5 stars 614
On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World empire. This could lead to a Colony War. Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren, and the synthetic Davis. Cher, seeking to discover who caused the death of her sister, Shy Hunt, uncovers a far bigger story. McLaren’s mission, fought alongside his wife, is to stop the militarization of the deadliest weapon of all—the Xenomorph.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Politics no xeno
- By andrew friedman on 04-20-22
- Alien: Colony War
- By: David M. Barnett
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
As unoriginal and predictable as it gets.
Reviewed: 05-21-24
The lack of originality. Then layer on very mediocre arguably poor narration, layered with predictability, and you get a boring mess of a story. This is easily the worst of the entire series.
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Red Platoon
- A True Story of American Valor
- By: Clinton Romesha
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Clinton Romesha
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,352
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,079
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,071
In 2009 Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the US military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after Keating's construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: It was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read for Comfortable, Non-combatant Americans
- By Rum Runner on 11-21-18
- Red Platoon
- A True Story of American Valor
- By: Clinton Romesha
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Clinton Romesha
Our thanks will never be enough
Reviewed: 04-21-24
Like Blackhawk down, this should be required reading in every high school in America. Thank you.
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The Sleepover
- By: Keri Beevis
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,512
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,444
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,444
The summer in question started out with hot, fun-filled days and new friendships. We had just turned thirteen and had our whole lives ahead of us. But that was before her. Before we became known as the Hixton Five and our lives become defined by one night. It’s hard to believe twenty years have passed since she was locked away. But now she’s free and strange things have started to happen. When I close my eyes, the creeping anxiety and fear is overwhelming and all too real. Because the monster is back, and I know she has a score to settle with us.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration. Disappointing Story
- By Randy Lentz on 03-04-24
- The Sleepover
- By: Keri Beevis
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Slow
Reviewed: 03-16-24
Seven hours in and I gave up. Story was just taking too long, and too frustrated to continue.  OK narration but considering how many of the characters are men it makes me wonder why they didn’t try using a man to narrate this. 
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The Gray Man
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,484
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,414
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20,353
Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man—a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The gray man talks about gentry in the 3rd person on the court
- By Safekeeper on 07-26-17
- The Gray Man
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Over the top - Almost MacGyver-esque
Reviewed: 02-05-24
I listened to Greaney's Gun Metal Gray first, then decided to give the series a try. It's clear his writing improved since this first book. Don't ever let Jay Snyder try to mimic a South African accent. Ho-boy, he went from S. African-ish, to Irish, then Scottish in the span of three sentences. Distracting? Um, yeah. Otherwise, besides the casual racist comment woven into the story, this is a "silly romp" that isn't deep on anything, but entertaining (mostly).
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Catacombs
- A Faye Longchamp Mystery
- By: Mary Anna Evans
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 242
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 239
A deafening explosion rocks a historic Oklahoma City hotel, sending archaeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth crashing to the lobby floor. Faye's in town for a conference celebrating indigenous arts but is soon distracted by the aftermath of the explosion, which cracks open the hotel’s floor to reveal subterranean chambers that had housed Chinese immigrants a century before. Faye's fascinated by the tunnels, which are a time capsule back to the early 20th century - but when the bodies of three children are discovered deep beneath the city, her sense of discovery turns to one of dread.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By vv on 04-21-23
- Catacombs
- A Faye Longchamp Mystery
- By: Mary Anna Evans
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Definition of tedius - Really poor narration
Reviewed: 12-24-23
Have you ever met someone who talked way too much, taking 100 words to say something that could be expressed in 10? That's this writer. I actually started fast forwarding 30 seconds at a time only to find I hadn't missed anything. The juice is definitely not worth the squeeze! Layer on the extremely weak narration - it's not worth trying. I find it odd how someone approved her to voice so many male voices when she is clearly incapable of doing this.
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The Dispatcher
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84,101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77,198
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76,982
Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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5 out of 5 stars
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-05-16
- The Dispatcher
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
Fun! The writing style reminds me of The Short Drop
Reviewed: 06-07-23
Great short story! Interesting idea regarding afterlife, and the sudden mundaneness of death. Not to mention, the consequences of exploiting a miracle. I’d like the gritty nature of the story, reminds me of old school gumshoe fiction.
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Coronado's Children
- Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
- By: J. Frank Dobie, Frank H. Wardlaw - foreword
- Narrated by: James Hutchings
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great stories, not the best narrator
- By Luz on 01-19-21
- Coronado's Children
- Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
- By: J. Frank Dobie, Frank H. Wardlaw - foreword
- Narrated by: James Hutchings
Fun, at first
Reviewed: 01-24-23
Initially, I found these stories to be quite engaging and interesting from a historical perspective. However, they become very repetitive very quickly. The same outcome every time. Someone knows where treasure is, someone forgets where the treasure is, someone finds a map, someone can’t find the treasure, even though they know where the treasure is supposed to be. And so on…
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Kill Decision
- By: Daniel Suarez
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,772
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,172
Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned - and thanks to her research, automated - drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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LEO WAS RIGHT, PART II
- By Mark on 07-25-12
- Kill Decision
- By: Daniel Suarez
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
Not his best, went off the rails
Reviewed: 12-12-22
Big fan of the author’s commitment to detail and deep character development. This book is no different, but I started rolling my eyes in the 2nd half of the book. Suspension of disbelief flew out the window like one of his ravens.
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