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Black Samurai, Book 1
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Midnite Michael
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Marc Olden
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When terrorists butcher his sensei, a samurai takes vengeance in blood
On leave in Tokyo, American GI Robert Sand is shot trying to protect an old man from a quartet of drunk American soldiers. As Sand passes out, the old man springs on his tormenters, beating them senseless with frail, wrinkled fists. He is Master Konuma, keeper of the ancient secrets of the samurai, and Sand is about to become his newest pupil. Over the next seven years, the American learns martial arts, swordplay, and stealth, becoming not just the first black man to ever take the oath of the samurai, but the strongest fighter Konuma has ever trained.
One night, two dozen terrorists ambush the dojo, slaughtering Konuma and his students as the first step in a terrifying assault on world peace. Though he cannot save his sensei, Sand escapes with his life and a gnawing hunger for vengeance. All he has is his sword, but his sword is all he needs.
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John is a killer, but that wasn't his day job before the Apocalypse. In a harrowing 900-mile race against time to get to his wife just as the dead begin to rise, John, a businessman trapped in New York, soon learns that the zombies are the least of his worries, as he sees firsthand the horror of what man is capable of with no rules, no consequences, and death at every turn. Teaming up with an ex-army pilot named Kyle, they escape New York only to stumble across a man who says that he has the key to a rumored underground stronghold called Avalon....
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A "road story"--with zombies!
- By Lesley on 09-30-14
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99 Coffins
- A Historical Vampire Tale
- By: David Wellington
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognizable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles.
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So Disappointed
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-19-16
By: David Wellington
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Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
- By: Victor Gischler
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Edgar Award nominee Victor Gischler “specializes in morbid humor, dark sarcasm, and comic noir, complete with violence and mayhem” ( Library Journal). Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse picks up 10 years after the end of the world. Former insurance salesman Mortimer Tate leaves his secluded cabin and discovers a desolate landscape complete with cowboys, bandits, and cannibals, where the only traces of civilization are found at Joey Armageddon’s Sassy-a-Go-Go club.
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Post-apocalypse with a touch of old west thrown in
- By Michelle on 04-17-12
By: Victor Gischler
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Ariel
- By: Steven R. Boyett
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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It's been five years since the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming Earth. Pete Garey survived the Change, trusting no one but himself until the day he met Ariel - a unicorn who brought new meaning and adventure to his life.
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A Unique Love Story in a Fantasy Novel
- By David on 06-11-15
By: Steven R. Boyett
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Spandau Phoenix
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
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The Spandau Diary -- what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped to get it? Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors of the Nazi past to warriors in this new conflict about to explode? Why did the world's entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over a nightmare abyss?
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Excellent and intense
- By CBDC on 05-09-10
By: Greg Iles
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The Book of Spies
- By: Gayle Lynds
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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Ann Blake, a rare-book expert and conservator, was imprisoned for a drunk-driving accident that she doesn't remember, one that resulted in the death of her husband, a famous rare-book expert. But she is freed from prison by CIA undercover agent Tucker Anderson in exchange for her help and expertise on the Library of Gold, a legendary collection of books that have been lost to the world for over a century.
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Exciting spy tale, and then....
- By Janice on 05-31-11
By: Gayle Lynds
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Krampus
- The Yule Lord
- By: Brom
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
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One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets back to earth, a magical sack that thrusts the down-on-his-luck singer into the clutches of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus.
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5 stars
- By colleen on 11-17-12
By: Brom
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Cold City
- Repairman Jack: Early Years Trilogy, Book 1
- By: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- By Andrew Pollack on 01-17-14
By: F. Paul Wilson
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Echoes of a Distant Summer
- By: Guy Johnson
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 32 hrs and 29 mins
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The son of Maya Angelou, Guy Johnson is a critically acclaimed author and poet in his own right. Echoes of a Distant Summer is the story of Jackson St. Clair Tremain, a San Francisco civil servant who thought he had left his old life far behind. In 1982, Jackson is summoned to Mexico to confer with his dying grandfather, the brutal hustler King Tremain. When King dies, Jackson inherits $50 million - and the unwanted attentions of a malevolent bayou crime lord named Pug DuMont.
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"You Best Say Joe Cause You Sho' Don't Know!"
- By R. Pontiflet on 04-13-17
By: Guy Johnson
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The Cove
- FBI Thriller #1
- By: Catherine Coulter
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 11 hrs
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The Cove is a quaint little postcard town made up only of old folk who sell the World's Greatest Ice Cream - a secret recipe that brings lots of tourists into town.
Into The Cove comes Sally Brainerd, daughter of murdered Amory St. John, of Washington, D.C., seeking sanctuary, and FBI Special Agent James Quinlan, who's undercover and after her. He's got a murder to solve, and he believes she's the key. But is she really?
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Not for anyone sensitive about sexual violence
- By bookish327 on 08-19-12
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- CaffineFreeJAVA
- 12-09-24
I Get It! He's.... the BLACK SAMURAI
OMG, if i have to hear/read/think those words together ever again, it'll be too soon. This book burned any thought of reading up on Yasuke out of my wishlist. This book is the definition of the "white savior trope" but flipped to a black character. Being asian, i dont really care one way or the other that the lead is stronger, faster, and almost magically better at everything naturally despite not having trained for years. My first REAL gripe is the use of the characterization "The black samurai did X" and ".... said the black samurai" and "The black samurai considered his dinner plans..." Every 3rd or 4th description of the character (who was actually properly named in the story, its not like that aspect was a mystery) was calling him "the black samurai". In a book 7+ hours long, i heard "the black samurai" spoken a thousand times more than how many times i've used it in this review. It pains me to say that in & of itself threw me off a lot. Next, i dont mind the white/black savior learning the foreign kills from foreign masters and whatnot. Looking the author up, he studied karate before writing the novel. I DO mind the fact, everyone and their brother also practiced karate. The dojo in NYC of black (non) samurais, sure.... but the korean assassins? The IRA bombers? The French mercenaries? It definitely brought me back to the eighties, with the post-karate-kid CRAZE of everyone doing karate.
Ok. Enough nitpicking. Here's the review. The plot was over the top, the characters were laughably exaggerated (either SO GOOD or SO EVIL), and if i ever come across the Jim Kelly movie made of this novel, i'm fast forwarding through everything just to watch Kelly fight. The bits that were good were not worth the constant repetition of "the black samurai" (i effing get it, he's black and a samurai! you couldn't call him "the man who stood two heads taller than the crowd around him"?) the the anachronistic approach to international martial arts, the suddenly, inexplicably good at everything.... there isn't a tolkein's worth of good to get me to look past the bad. Also, the narrator has a great voice but is not terribly good at distinguishing characters. He'd be amazing in an ensemble cast, not a solo narrator
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