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Paul Levine
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Trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne was his own worst enemy - until now. Haunted by personal tragedy and wanted by the cops, Payne needs to skip town. What he doesn’t need is Tino Perez, a gutsy twelve-year-old Mexican boy in search of his missing - and undocumented - mother. But Payne’s ex-wife, an L.A.P.D. detective he still loves, makes him a deal: help the boy or go to jail. Soon Payne is following Tino into the darker side of the American dream. From bloody Mexicali to the bullet-ridden San Joaquin Valley, Payne is be swept into the dark current of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and sexual slavery - all the while, navigating the twisted border between justice and revenge.
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- By colleen on 08-24-11
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A Drink Before the War
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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Blackbirds
- Miriam Black, Book 1
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days he will be gruesomely murdered while he calls her name. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. No matter what she does, she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.
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Not for the faint of heart or kids but exciting
- By Steph on 04-07-14
By: Chuck Wendig
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Playing Dead
- A Novel
- By: Julia Heaberlin
- Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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The perfume-scented letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself inextricably linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana.
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I tried but I just couldn't
- By Kathryn on 09-17-12
By: Julia Heaberlin
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Brighton
- A Novel
- By: Michael Harvey
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Kevin Pearce - baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton - was 15 when he left town in the back of his uncle's cab. He and his buddy, Bobby Scales, had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn't want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin's future would remain as bright as ever. At least that was the way things were supposed to work, except in Brighton things never work the way they're supposed to.
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Mystery gets no better.
- By William H. Harrington on 10-27-18
By: Michael Harvey
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The Brotherhood of the Wheel
- By: R. S. Belcher
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
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In AD 1119, a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon - a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them.
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Epic Battle Brewing
- By Doug D. Eigsti on 03-29-16
By: R. S. Belcher
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Niceville
- By: Carsten Stroud
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: Four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just 36 hours. Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family, find themselves struggling to make sense of it all.
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Good Story- Wrong Reader
- By Stacy on 06-28-14
By: Carsten Stroud
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Crimes in Southern Indiana
- Stories
- By: Frank Bill
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bill’s southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied.
By: Frank Bill
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Ransom River
- By: Meg Gardiner
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Rory Mackenzie is juror number seven on a high-profile murder case in her hometown of Ransom River, California. It's a place she vowed never to visit again, after leaving behind its surfeit of regret and misfortune and the specter of a troubled past that threatened to disturb the town's peaceful façade. Brilliant yet guarded, Rory has always felt like an outsider. She retreated into herself when both her career aspirations and her love affair with a childhood friend, undercover cop Seth Colder, were destroyed in a tragic accident.
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"Betrayal and Justice For All"
- By Empress Karen on 06-19-15
By: Meg Gardiner
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The Blue Edge of Midnight
- By: Jonathon King
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Max Freeman's old life ended on a night that will haunt him forever. The night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defense in a Philadelphia shootout. The night he stopped being a cop. Now he lives a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where he answers to no one but the demons that eat away at his conscience. When he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river and another child goes missing, all eyes turn to Freeman.
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Florida swamp thriller
- By Donald on 12-23-10
By: Jonathon King
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- Amy
- 04-28-14
A Great first book to listen to on Audible
Who was your favorite character and why?
Tino. I grew to love his responses to situations.
What about Chris Andrew Ciulla’s performance did you like?
I couldn't believe it was just him. I felt like there were many different people performing this story for me.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The ending made me cry because I got so invested in the relationship between Tino and his mother.
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- OAB
- 06-03-21
Hard to stop listening to .
Went to bed listening to the book.. Fell asleep,woke up,rewinded,listened repeated until finished. Great story.
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- LA Bos
- 03-26-14
Nice Legal Thriller
Would you consider the audio edition of Illegal to be better than the print version?
Yeah, I think so. The narrator did a great job with the tension, the situations, and the different people. It added a lot to the story, where your imagination may not take you there otherwise.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Yes. I didn't know what the outcome was going to be for Tino, for Jimmy, Marisol, etc. It had a really good mix of suspense and violence. Paul Levine is a good author.
Which character – as performed by Chris Andrew Ciulla – was your favorite?
Loved Jimmy Payne as the lead. Also liked Chitwood, and Simeon Rutledge.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Sad story about human trafficking and a scumbag rancher. But it's fiction. I'm cool with it.
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- Bon Wilhelm
- 08-02-22
Satisfiying
I love thrillers. . This 1 has very engaging characters that is to say the characters that I liked. The antagonists were as evil as the protagonists we're likable. The story maintains an allegro pace. This was my 1st book by Levine and I can't wai to download my next. Narrator was excellent too.
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- Evan Makovsky
- 03-31-14
Great listen and what an intense ride
Where does Illegal rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Second
Who was your favorite character and why?
Jimmy Payne. The intensity and cadence in the narrator's voice really portrayed Jimmy's internal straggle.
What about Chris Andrew Ciulla’s performance did you like?
He was completely dialed in to the performance. You could get on board with the listen because the narrator was so passionate.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No it was too long, but sad to end each session.
Any additional comments?
I look forward to more work from the narrator.
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- Nane
- 02-24-20
didn't finish
language ruins the story. Couldn't find the story for the profanity. so tired of author who cant express themselves without foul language
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- Wayne
- 01-31-16
Great opening chapters; very vivid characters!
There is a lot to like about Illegal. The book starts off with a great scene and the characters are vivid. Although the protagonist is a lawyer, the novel is really an action thriller rather than a legal thriller. One the negative side the novel gets repetitive and boring in the middle chapters of the book; nevertheless, based on the strength of the opening and closing chapters Illegal earns a solid 4 star rating.
RECOMMENDED!
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- TH
- 07-12-16
Not one of the best stories, but not terrible
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
It was okay. It didn't have the same wit and humor as Jake Lassiter and Solomon & Lord books, and the pace was a lot slower.
Would you be willing to try another book from Paul Levine? Why or why not?
of course, I've enjoyed several of his books.
What three words best describe Chris Andrew Ciulla’s voice?
He would be a great narrator for one of those crime shows on Investigation Discovery.
Could you see Illegal being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
probably Timonthy Olyphant as Payne...Mirielle Enos as his estranged wife....Ian McShane as Rutledge...not sure on the others.
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- Book Bug!
- 04-14-21
Great Read!
Once again the author delivers a book with a lot of twists and turns! An Exceptional story, as it has you examine how we would behave if the story was our own and we had such a loss was our own.
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- happyjo
- 12-02-17
Where's mama?
Fast moving with lots of crooked characters. Enjoyable rowdy romp to save a missing woman.
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