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Dead Ringer

By: Allen Wyler
Narrated by: Ray Chase
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While speaking at a Hong Kong medical conference, neurosurgeon Dr. Lucas McCrae slips the cloth off a cadaver's head during a routine medical demonstration, and is overwhelmed with the shock by what's staring back at him: His best friend, Andy Baer.

Stunned, McCrae races back to Seattle to discover that Andy is in fact missing and may have been murdered by a gang of body snatchers who operate a legit funeral business and make a fortune by selling recovered body parts to medical researchers.

McCrae teams up with an unlikely pair - a beautiful but hard nosed female cop and a gang member whose family was victimized by the body parts ring - to try and expose a macabre web of corruption that involves law enforcement, politicians, funeral home curators and murdered prostitutes.

Internationally renowned neurosurgeon Allen Wyler takes us deep into a nightmarish scenario, shockingly ripped from recent headlines, and delivers a horrifically plausible, pause resisting thriller.

©2012 Allen Wyler (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Medical Medical & Forensic Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Editorial reviews

After the shocking discovery of his friend Andy's cadaver, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Lucas McRae, with a helping hand from the self-assured, no-nonsense detective Wendy Elliott, seek to expose a sinister syndicate of body snatchers in Allen Wyler's pulse-pounding thriller, Dead Ringer.

Wyler, a distinguished neurosurgeon himself, showcases a keen eye for detail as well as the ability to craft nuanced characters, and Ray Chase displays a surgeon's precision with his expertly calculated, pitch-perfect performance that heightens the nail-biting tension of this exhilarating medical thriller.
Interesting Premise • Suspenseful Plot • Excellent Voice • Distinctive Character Voices • Believable Environment
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The story was believable in today's environment and kept my interest throughout.

My review is primarily related to the narration, which would have been viewed as good except for the
extreme variance in volume, I read other reviews that primarily noticed this in autos, but I found it
to be a problem even in a quiet environment.

It is with regret that I give the Narrator such a low rating, because it is based entirely on his volume variance, but that alone diminished the listening experience.

I would be less likely to choose another book that he has narrated.

Very Good Story but Frustrated by the Narration

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  Another far-fetched story that I enjoyed.  Although Wyler continues to write stories that are far fetched if not completely unrealistic, I still enjoyed this book. And who knows, maybe this is really plausible.

Great Book

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After reading the reviews I was doubtful about this book. I’m glad to say I was pleasantly surprised. Story was good, narration was good and it held my interest from the first page to the last. I definitely recommend it.

Good book

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The story was great but parts of the narration were so soft that I couldn’t hear it at all in my car without blasting the stereo. In the end I gave up and went in to another book.

Couldn’t hear part of the narration

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It could true story it starts to be shocker that could happen with a good ending

Full of action

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I liked the story, at least what I could hear of it. The narrator whispered too much,

Too many whispers

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I was looking for a quick read after a long series and stumbled across this book when I searched out books read by Ray Chase. I love his narration and the summary seemed interesting. The story is well written, I liked the depths of the characters. The tension between the main character and his wife threw me back to my ex and my ending relationship. Wyler must have experienced a similar relationship to capture it so well.
As for the racism and distain for people of Polish decent, I forgot about all the jokes that my greasy stepfathers and my mom's ex boyfriends used to tell in the 70's and 80's. It lead to me pausing the book so that I could Google why people made such jokes. Ignorance has always been bountiful the targets for the ignorance just grows and shifts.

Enjoyable story

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I enjoyed the story, but the narrator detracted a good deal from it. At time he lowers his voice such that it is inaudible. This was really annoying, especially during key moments in dialogue. It would be better to read this book rather than listen to it on Audible.

Good story

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The story isn’t terrible, it’s the narration that’s awful. The narrator does all of the women voices in a soft meek whisper. The guys voices are performed in a loud booming confident voice. This book is irky on so many levels.

Just Skip It

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I enjoyed the story but the narrator wildly varies the volume of his voice - which drives me nuts if I'm trying to relax OR listening via ear buds.

otherwise believable characters and great prose.

Great story but the narrator varies

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