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Happenstance

A Frank Sherman Thriller

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Happenstance

By: Joel Austin
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Escaping the war was easy until they killed his friend. Now war is all they'll know.

When Frank Sherman was one month into college, the Twin Towers fell. He joined the Army the next day. That was fifteen years ago. He never left the war.

After a brutal and bloody mess in Eastern Europe, they give him leave to visit his only genuine friend in Northern California. Sherman arrives in the small backwater town to find an empty house and a sinking sense of despair. What began as an escape from the violence and blood quickly spirals back to the war. As he uncovers each new link in the mystery, Sherman takes another step back towards the cold-blooded killer he has become.


For a generation left with no choice but the War on Terror, Sherman knows only one truth. It was not his war to start, but it is his to fight.

Fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne will enjoy this Frank Sherman thriller.

Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Military Thriller & Suspense War & Military
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The only thing that let the book down was the narration by Virtual voice. Would like to read a next in series. 😃

Good book

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This is a great story ruined by robotic narration. Why does everything have to be cheapened?

AI narration

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This is a genre I enjoy. The narration needs a little work...IEDs were not pronounced correctly, but the AI did a better job than the last narrator I listened to. The story was similar to that of a Jack Reacher novel.

The narration was better than i expected.

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Loved the way the story unfolded. I was not able to predict the outcome. Well done!

Great Suspense

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Virtual voice narrating is so dull. There is NO emphasis/emotion in the reading. So hard to stay engaged with dead narrative.

Virtual Voice Sucks

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Ok, the ai voice took away from story and would have been much better if read by person

Terrible voice

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I don’t like the AI narrators
Syntax and voice inflection are horrible
Not worth listening to even though it’s included

AI narrator…Boooo

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I was excited to listen to the AI generated narration but was incredibly disappointed. The narration was bland at best, monotone and without typical human emotion in the voice. The story line, plot and characters started off okay but rapidly declined. Between the horrible narration and story, I couldn’t finish the book. Grateful it was free.

Narration and story line disappointing

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Didn’t/couldn’t finish. The AI narrator is ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. Please, please, please never replace living, breathing humans with AI narrators.

Boooooooo to AI

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