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Blown

By: Chuck Barrett
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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Gregg Kaplan is not an ordinary man, but a man with special skills, courtesy of the United States Government. His assignment is to stay off the grid when he innocently stumbles into a blown witness protection detail in Little Rock, Arkansas. He simply could not walk away from the impending mayhem. After the dust settles, a mortally wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal makes him promise to personally deliver the witness to a U.S. Marshals Service safe site. Not just a promise, an oath.

A pledge between ex-Army Delta Force comrades. A trust that could not be broken - once in, never out. Kaplan soon suspects the witness he vowed to protect has secrets of his own; secrets that go beyond his testimony for the U.S. government. When he discovers the witness is being tracked, Kaplan teams with a WitSec Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to recover the witness, but soon realizes some merciless people are dead set on preventing the witness from reaching the safe site. But the witness has a hidden agenda - one that could cost Kaplan his life.

©2015 Chuck Barrett (P)2015 Audible Inc. Mystery
Non-stop Action • Exciting Twists • Decent Performance • Complex Hero • Interesting Plot • Riveting Adventure
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The book moves quickly and takes so many twist and turns. You will not figure out the ending to you get there. I thoughly enjoyed the listen!

The was a great book, the held my attention!

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BLOWN is the first (audio)book in the Gregg Kaplan series by Chuck Barrett and it’s narrated by Marc Vietor.

Lately I’ve been in the thriller mood; when I read -the very explicit- blurb for this audiobook I thought I have found a perfect listen, but soon after I started this audiobook I started to have problems with it. First, the story is told by many different POVs and every time there was a change of character I was lost. I had to go back and re-listen 20 seconds or sometimes more to see when the change of character occurred. That happened many times and it seriously disrupted my enjoyment of the story.

Secondly, the characters felt a bit too flat and very similar. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why I didn’t notice the change of characters exactly at the moment when they occurred, but much later. And I don’t know how many times Gregg Kaplan reminded us of the promise he made to the Deputy U.S. Marshal, but it was one or two or three too many, that’s for sure.

Apart for that, the story is interesting and it has non-stop action. The fighting scenes are well coordinated and there were couple of twists and turns that I really liked.

One thing I noticed is that people who read this book loved it, while people who listened to this audiobook didn’t like it much. I don’t know, although the voices of the characters were very similar, I thought Marc Vietor did a decent job, but now I can’t help but wonder if I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read it instead of listening to the audio.
Will I listen to next book in the series? I’m not sure; I think I’ll wait for some (audiobook) reviews to then decide.

Interesting story, non-stop action, but...

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The narrator was great. I can picture in my mind which actors will play in the leading roles.

Waiting for the movie.

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nice job of tying two seeminly different stories into one great adventure. narriation is spot on

EXCELLANT

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This detailed story guides the listener through three or four complex yet seemingly unrelated but intertwined stories that rivet the listener to their seat. So nice to be "completely entertained". Great listen.

Completly entertaining

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Right up there with the worst Pierce Brosnan James Bond! Storyline OK, but no Gray man .

Wow

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Every time I pick up a Chuck Barrett book I am stuck reading the whole series. Tough problem right? I’m hooked from the first few pages and can’t stop until I have read every word written so far in this series. Get back to work Mr. Barrett, I need something else to read.

Thanks, Chuck! Hooked again.

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author did an excellent job in building unique charactors and delivering an ever evolving story. The research undertaken places the charactors close to real situations in the field.

Truly enjoyed the quality of the book and the content.

well researched, characters well developed

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Any time I can read and/or listen to a book and I don’t skim past even one page or roll my eyes it’s a very good story, and I really enjoyed this one.

Gregg Kaplan is an assassin for the CIA and he stumbles in to an attempted assassination in a restaurant where a United States Marshall is killed, but before he dies he makes Kaplan promise to get his witness, Tony, to a WitSec safe house. The rest of the story is about that happening, while leaving breadcrumbs for Marshall Pete Moss to follow along the way.

This was exciting from beginning to end, just how I like my books. The ONLY thing I found unbelievable was this book was about the Mafia and the F-bomb wasn’t used even once? Yeah, that wouldn’t happen so that part wasn’t true-to-life and that’s what I look for in a book about the assassins, cops, BAD GUYS IN THE MAFIA. So, as good as this was I won’t be reading anymore of this PC author. He was too worried about offending those that don’t swear to make it real. Sorry..

No sex and no F-bomb.

As to the narration: Marc Vietor was barely okay for me. His women’s voices need work and, as I’m always saying, when you’re sneaking up on someone and you’re not whispering you ruin the moment in that book.

Great read and barely okay narration..

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The story and characters make for a really good listen. Moves quickly and has enough plot changes to keep you guessing.

Keeps your interest!

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