
A Small Town
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Narrated by:
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Christina Delaine
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By:
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Thomas Perry
In A Small Town, 12 conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town - burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the 12 who plotted it all get away.
After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in vain. The mayor and city attorney meet, and Leah Hawkins, a six-foot, two-inch former star basketball player and resident good cop, is placed on sabbatical so that she can tour the country learning advanced police procedures. The sabbatical is merely a ruse, however, as her real job is to track the infamous 12. And kill them.
Leah's mission takes her across the country, from Florida to New York, from California to an anti-government settlement deep in the Ozarks. Soon, the surviving fugitives realize what she is up to, and a race to kill or be killed ensues. Full of exhilarating twists and surprisingly resonant, A Small Town will sweep listeners along on Leah's quest for vengeance.
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**minor spoiler** in this paragraph
My only complaint with the story (again: minor spoiler) was the primary motivation given to the protagonist being an affair she had with a man, who died on the night of the invasion, whose wife had MS. It is kind of vague / not directly stated whether or not the wife knew and tacitly approved / accepted it due to her condition and her wanting her husband to be happy or whatever but, either way, it made the protagonist and her lover, for the short part of the story where he is featured, both completely unlikeable to me. Neither of them ever seem to convey any sense of guilt, or even struggle with the slightest conflict, with it. It certainly was not to the extent that I was rooting against her, it'd be almost impossible given how loathsome the antagonists are (it's impossible to feel anything for them except a desire to WANT them as dead as possible), but I also didn't feel like I was fully in her corner. I guess it seemed like an unnecessary thing to provide as her motivation, but maybe I'm just being too much of a Puritan.
If you've heard this narrator before and enjoy her, then nothing should stop you from checking this out. It's an interesting, fairly unique, concept. I don't know what anyone's personal threshold for narration is, so that is my only warning about the book. I think I have a maybe unfairly high standard set by narrators like Will Patton, George Guidell, etc... A great female narrator whose name I cannot recall right now is the one who reads 'Main Street' by Sinclair Lewis. She is someone to look for who has a great, dynamic range when voicing characters.
Great story, bad narration
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