After the Monsoon
An Ernst Grip Novel
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David Colacci
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Robert Karjel
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From the author of the international best seller The Swede comes an electrifying thriller set in the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa - where the sea caresses the desert, alliances shift like sand, and a Swedish detective can count on nothing but his own shrewdness to survive.
A Swedish army lieutenant drops dead on a shooting range in the desert. Was it an unfortunate accident - or something more nefarious? Ernst Grip, an agent of the Swedish security police, is sent to the Horn of Africa to find out. Once he’s on the ground, however, he quickly discovers he’s on his own. No one wants him snooping around - especially not the US Embassy’s CIA station. Which is no surprise, given that military transport planes are leaving from the base carrying untraceable pallets loaded with cash.
What’s more, Grip’s investigation is complicated by another dangerous situation. Somali pirates have kidnapped a wealthy Swedish family during the adventure of a lifetime: a sailing trip from Sweden to the Great Barrier Reef. Why, Grip wonders, is no one back home willing to pay the ransom in order to save these innocent lives?
Solving the mystery of the soldier’s death isn’t the end of Grip’s involvement - it’s a tipping point that leads him deep into a web of intrigue, greed, and dark dealings ensnaring both allies and enemies...and a world where no one can be trusted.
After the Monsoon explores the tough compromises made every day in pursuit of the greater good. How do you know which is the lesser of two evils? And what is the cost of betraying one interest to save another? In this provocative, pulse-pounding, and sophisticated thriller, Robert Karjel vividly creates a world in which the stains of innocent blood cannot be cleansed, and the sins of good men forced to make impossible choices cannot be washed away.
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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
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John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- By Wayne on 06-03-16
By: Mark Dawson
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The Crook Factory
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence - and the game turns deadly.
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Really well researched spy novel
- By Brian on 07-08-11
By: Dan Simmons
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Scorpion Betrayal
- By: Andrew Kaplan
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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The head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo cafe - his assailant a faceless killer known only as "the Palestinian". It is the opening move in a chilling game of terror that has caught the international intelligence community completely off-guard, and the CIA turns to the one man they believe can get to the twisted roots of a looming nightmare shrouded in mystery: a former Company operative code-named Scorpion.
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Detailed espionage, character development shallow
- By Kathryn on 11-20-13
By: Andrew Kaplan
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The Cleaner
- By: Elisabeth Herrmann
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.
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Reader was very distracting
- By Merry Unbirthday on 10-16-17
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Island
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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This riveting and entertaining thriller by Thomas Perry follows a husband-and-wife con team on the run from the Mob, a soldier of fortune between jobs, a two-bit operator with grandiose dreams of tribal dynasty, a sultry CIA operative with divided loyalties, the most dazzling defector ever to hurl a split-fingered fastball, and 20th-century buccaneers who wash up on a tiny island in the Caribbean and turn it into a multinational cash machine. But then the shooting starts.
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Not good Thomas Perry
- By Sean Cunningham on 08-26-18
By: Thomas Perry
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Vulcan's Forge
- A Novel
- By: Jack Du Brul
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Beneath the Pacific Ocean a volcano surges upward, carrying in its fiery heart a mineral more powerful than uranium. When the volcano breaks the ocean's surface, nations will battle to control what is known as Vulcan's Forge - a source of limitless, clean, nuclear power.
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foul language, returned the title
- By R. Frazier on 04-27-10
By: Jack Du Brul
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Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- By: Ted Bell
- Narrated by: John Shea
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
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Scam
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-18
By: Ted Bell
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Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell
- By: Richard Marcinko, John Weisman
- Narrated by: Richard Marcinko
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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When Richard Marcinko wrote his best-selling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell - a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself as the hero.
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Good story, but...
- By StreetMedic on 06-11-11
By: Richard Marcinko, and others
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Spycatcher
- By: Matthew Dunn
- Narrated by: Rich Orlow
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Matthew Dunn spent years as an MI6 field operative working on some of the West’s most clandestine missions. He recruited and ran agents, planned and participated in special operations, and operated deep undercover throughout the world. In Spycatcher he draws on this fascinating experience to breathe urgent, dynamic new life into the contemporary spy novel. Featuring deft and daring superspy Will Cochrane, Dunn paints a nerve-jangling, bracingly authentic picture of today’s secret world. It is a place where trust is precious and betrayal is cheap....
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Juvenile and just bad
- By R. L. Ketcham on 08-30-11
By: Matthew Dunn
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Children of the Deterrent
- Halfhero, Book 1
- By: Ian W. Sainsbury
- Narrated by: Sam Phillips, Jaimi Barbakoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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The new novel by the author of the best-selling The World Walker series. 'My name is Daniel Harbin, and I'm a child of The Deterrent.' What if a superhuman turned out not to be so super...or even human? Britain's superhero, The Deterrent, was unveiled to the world in 1979 and disappeared two years later. The truth about his origins has never been revealed. The rumours about his children - those that survived - and their mysterious abilities have never been confirmed. Until now....
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Everything Backstory Until Last Few Chapters
- By Sailfish on 06-30-20
By: Ian W. Sainsbury
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- Mary
- 09-23-18
Slow going at first but good overall
It took me some time to key into narrator. At first it seemed deadly slow. But as the story opened up I found it compelling and satisfyingly.
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- Hannimari
- 08-18-23
Excellent listen!
Start is a bit slow, but after that the plot starts to move with good pace. I was concerned that this book would be more made to the male audience with "action action action" but I was wrong. It is not just a simple cop story or just running with guns, rather strategical and exciting with plenty twists. There's only one thing that screams that this is a book written by a Swede and it's the phrase "Stockholm, the Scandinavian capital" which is heard so many times.
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- Richard Delman
- 08-18-18
Difficult book to review. Pulse-pounding? Not.
The publisher's blurb of this book makes it sound much more exciting and gripping (sorry) than it actually is. In spite of that, and probably because I just love the voice of David Colacci, I stayed with it and learned quite a bit about Sweden, Somalia and the other countries in the Horn of Africa, about which I knew virtually nothing before. I did know about the Somali pirates. They make a dramatic appearance in the beginning of the book, which is well-written. A ridiculously wealthy Swedish family has made the decision to drop out of the rat race, after making tons of money in the venture capital game. Karl-Adam worked for many years at Scandinavian Capital, a company in which the partners line their walls with multimillion-krone works of art. Karl-Adam was never a partner, but he still managed to compile a tidy fortune. He and his wife and kids appeared in many publicity shots at balls and yachting races and other enjoyments of the wealthy, and the publicity about these events turns out to be a horrible thing for them. Karl-Adam and Jenny have a daughter, Alexandra and a son, Sebastian. Sebastian suffers from epilepsy. The couple decide to take a trip around the continent of Africa and then, presumably, back up north to home in Sweden. In the process, though, they sail right through an area which they have been told to avoid, in no uncertain terms. This part of the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa is the lair of Somali pirates. The family is kidnapped in a violent struggle. They are then held as victims of a $10 million ransom demand. They are tortured, beaten, given exactly one bucket of water a day to address all of their water needs. We feel intensely sorry for them. They did nothing to deserve this, other than sail in an area of the ocean which is infested with human sharks. The attempt to rescue this family (I won't even try to spell their last name) is one of the two foci of Inspector Ernst Grip, a Swedish cop who is sent down by himself to solve the murder of a Swedish man on a firing range. The trip to the range is kind of a lark, thought up by a Swedish lieutenant who decides that it would be fun to take along some of the Somali men who help them at their small military installation. On the firing range the Swedish lieutenant gets murdered by one bullet in the head. Inspector Grip spends the rest of his time in the book trying to solve both of these very knotty problems. Much of the book concerns spy stuff that doesn't really hold my attention very well. It reads a good deal like John le Carre. Codes and lies and people in disguise and calls to upper management in Sweden who have no real idea of what is going on. I could have skipped a lot of this, and it would have, IMHO, helped increase the pace of the novel. The torture of the kidnapped family is described in small detail, and it is not fun to read. Not that it should be fun, but it could have been briefer. It is very fortunate that David Colacci narrates so well. I have listened to him read many books, almost the entire Abe Glitsky-Dismas Hardy series written by John Lescroart. Those books are some of my favorites, and Mr. Colacci bears a good deal of responsibility for that. In this book he voices many characters of both genders and a variety of ages, and you just do not hear a false note. There is a romantic-ish development near the halfway mark of the book between Insp. Grit and a woman named Iona, a half-black woman who plays piano in high-end hotels. She does some low-level spy work for Grit that becomes high-level work pretty quickly, just as the attraction between her and Grit develops. In the end, both crises get resolved, albeit with lots of drama and bloodshed and torture on our way there. Some of the torture is Byzantine, involving a bad guy being tied to the floor with ropes so that he can't stand or lie down, for days, until he melts into a puddle of animal excrescence. Pardon me. For the very squeamish, you might want to skip this part.
Anyway, the book is well-written and very well-narrated, and I am thinking about listening to another one in the series, if it is available. However, fourteen hours is a long time. The book could easily have been cut down to about nine hours, and it would have improved it immensely. An illustration of one of my favorite principles: addition by subtraction. If you think about this, it applies all over the place. Think of weeding a garden, or going into therapy and losing some bad habits, or cleaning the junk out of your house and finding that some open space is beautiful. Etcetera. I see it everywhere.
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- Richard J. Adamson
- 11-23-21
Lost 6 hours
After 6 hours I gave up.
Not going anywhere I could see. Wish I could have returned it for credit!
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- Chippie
- 08-28-23
Nope, not for me
I thought there'd be more action here, but as I slogged through a couple hours of this, I could see not much was going to happen soon and didn't want to wait 14 hours to find out what happens. I'm trying to return but can't find that option...
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