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  • Facing the Darkness

  • Against the Darkness, Book 1
  • By: H. L. Wegley
  • Narrated by: R. E. Harter
  • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Facing the Darkness

By: H. L. Wegley
Narrated by: R. E. Harter
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She scuttled the CCP’s biowarfare plans. When they catch her, she will pay.

Dr. Meiling Chen, a brilliant young virologist from the Hong Kong Medical School, is on the verge of a major breakthrough for manipulating the entire class of RNA viruses that would make gain of function hardly more than child’s play. She is offered an attractive postdoctoral fellowship at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to complete her work, and she accepts.

Knowing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) plans to use her work to create deadly bioweapons, she memorizes but does not document her important findings, deletes all her data files, and tries to escape to America with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents in pursuit.

Escaping China with its surveillance and social credit system is not easy. And even if Meiling is successful, can she find someone she can trust in the US who will allow her to continue her work, using it only for good? But treachery is a capital offense to the CCP and PLA, and it never goes unpunished.

Ryan Adams, a meteorologist at a Bend, Oregon TV station and a self-taught Christian apologist, said he’d give his right arm for a reliable source of info on China’s bioweapons program. He might get his wish, but it could cost him more than just his right arm.

Set in Wuhan, China, Hong Kong, Oregon, and Colorado, Facing the Darkness is a clean medical thriller that paints a picture of the cost of Facing the Darkness.

©2023 Harry L. Wegley (P)2023 Harry L. Wegley
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Excellent

His stories are always good and narration added and brought the detail of the story out of which I enjoyed. Given audio for my voluntary review

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Excellent series!

I loved the book, which I read before I listened to the audiobook. The plot is fast moving and well written! H L Wegley has become one of my favorite modern authors.

If a man reading and trying to mimic an Asian woman's voice bothers you, I'd suggest reading rather than listening to the audio. But otherwise it is excellent.

I purchased the kindle book, but received a free copy of the audio in exchange for my honest opinion.

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Exciting medical thriller

This book is a suspenseful medical thriller with a thread of light romance and faith and God’s forgiveness. Some characters return from prior books, but this can be read as a stand-alone or as the first in the Against the Darkness trilogy, which is very good as are all of Wegley’s books!
Although I had read the kindle version previously, I jumped at the chance to listen to the first audio version of one of his books. It did not disappoint! I really enjoyed listening and picked up on more detail than when reading it. It grabs your attention right away and doesn’t let go, just like a good thriller should do! R. E. Garter did a good job narrating and changed up voices for the different characters. I used 1.2x speed. I look forward to more audios from this author! I received an Audible code from the author with no strings attached.

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Facing the darkness

I wanted to like this book more. I found it very slow going and too religious. I didn’t catch much of a story line.Narration was ok. I was given this book free for an honest review.

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