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Narrated by:
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Dick Hill
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By:
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Tim Tigner
About this listen
HE DIDN'T DO IT.
He really didn't.
But proving it
will be a killer.
Imagine Harrison Ford's The Fugitive meets Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October.
Framed for murder and on the run, former Olympic biathlete Kyle Achilles is also in the crosshairs of assassins' guns. Why? He has no idea. He's fighting blind against two master strategists and one extraordinary invention - known as Brillyanc.
Achilles' only ally is the other prime suspect, a beautiful Russian mathematician who is either the best or worst person to ever enter his life. Katya was engaged to Achilles' brother - before he died.
Chasing clues while dodging bullets, Achilles and Katya race around the globe, uncovering a conspiracy conceived in Moscow, born in Silicon Valley, and destined to demolish both the White House and the Kremlin. Along the way a lost soul finds purpose, a broken heart confronts forbidden love, and America gains a new hero.
Packed with heart-stopping surprises, paced by razor-sharp plotting, and populated with richly rendered characters, Pushing Brilliance will leave you breathless and longing for more.
Amazon named Tim Tigner an All-Star Author in December 2017 and every month since for being one of the most popular authors in Kindle Unlimited.
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During the worst blizzard in memory, an FBI agent in a moving SUV in New York City is killed by a nearly impossible sniper shot. Unable to pinpoint where the shot came from, as the storm rapidly wipes out evidence, the agent-in-charge Brett Kehoe turns to the one man who might be able to help them - former FBI agent Lucas Page. Page, a university professor and best-selling author, left the FBI years ago after a tragic event robbed him of the willingness to continue. Lucas Page has no interest in helping the FBI - except for the fact that the victim was his former partner.
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Great Story until the Lecture Began.....
- By Thomas on 08-08-19
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Poe
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- Narrated by: Abby Craden
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After losing her mother to a terrorist attack, Alexandra Poe was devastated when her father - disgraced and accused of treason - disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, over ten years and a stint in Iraq later, Alex is approached by a man who has information about her father and wants to help her find him. But there's a catch.
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Female version of Jack Reacher
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By: Brett Battles, and others
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Meet Jake Oliver. The day will come when he's one of the best cleaners in the business, a man skilled at making bodies disappear. At the moment, however, he's a 22 year old rookie cop, unaware his life is about to change. In a burning barn a body is found--and the fire isn't the cause of death. The detectives working the case have a pretty good idea about what went down. But Officer Oliver thinks it's something else entirely, and pursues a truth others would prefer remain hidden - others who will go to extreme lengths to keep him quiet.
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Battles and Brick - a great combination
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Every week a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through customs and loads them into armored trucks.
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Good Start To The Series
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Black Fridays
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Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects. Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed. But it’s not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, "the Kid", from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him.
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I enjoyed it. I loved the end!
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Heat Wave
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The title character from ABC's hit television series Castle kicks off his new series of books featuring tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat with a bang.
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Good book terrible narrator
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The Book of Spies
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Ann Blake, a rare-book expert and conservator, was imprisoned for a drunk-driving accident that she doesn't remember, one that resulted in the death of her husband, a famous rare-book expert. But she is freed from prison by CIA undercover agent Tucker Anderson in exchange for her help and expertise on the Library of Gold, a legendary collection of books that have been lost to the world for over a century.
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Exciting spy tale, and then....
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The Bricklayer
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Someone gives you a dangerous puzzle to solve, one that may kill you or someone else, and you're about to fail...and there is no other option. No one who can help. No one but the Bricklayer. The Bricklayer is the pulse-pounding novel introducing Steve Vail, one of the most charismatic new heroes to come along in thriller fiction in many years. He's an ex-FBI agent who's been fired for insubordination but is lured back to the Bureau to work a case that has become more unsolvable - and more deadly - by the hour.
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Just silly
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Children of the Deterrent
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The new novel by the author of the best-selling The World Walker series. 'My name is Daniel Harbin, and I'm a child of The Deterrent.' What if a superhuman turned out not to be so super...or even human? Britain's superhero, The Deterrent, was unveiled to the world in 1979 and disappeared two years later. The truth about his origins has never been revealed. The rumours about his children - those that survived - and their mysterious abilities have never been confirmed. Until now....
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Everything Backstory Until Last Few Chapters
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- matthew
- 11-28-16
Excellent book
This was a great book!!! My wife even enjoyed listening to it on the road. Honestly no complaints. If you like a good beginning to end book with minimal loose strings, this is your book.
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- Donald
- 04-05-17
Real Thriller
excellent story by an amazing story teller and narrated by one of the top narrators in the business.
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- Book Lover
- 09-07-16
Great experience!
Tim is a master at writing. There is a lot of thought to detail along with masterful twisting to to story. I will definitely read more!
The narration is amazing, as if the reader was actually the characters!
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- itinerant
- 10-24-16
get a new narrative device
The story is engaging enough, and the plot moves along relatively smartly, so this book works fine for keeping the mind engaged on long drives, for example, or when trying to fall asleep. But the McGuffin is just silly as all get-out, and increasingly hard to take seriously as the plot drags on . . . and on . . . and on. I seldom look at how much time is left in a book and despair of ever finishing it, bot for this one, I did. And finishing it left no clear memory of having done so, only a lingering sense that I should have better things to do with my time.
The most annoying feature of the book, however, is the narrative device employed on every page of having the allegedly smart woman asking softball questions to enable the super-smart narrator to mansplain pretty obvious things in an endlessly patient way, while the femme tabula raza soaks up the information adoringly.
All the world is a foil for the talented protagonist who at all times has infinite time to elaborate on the obvious to people evidently raised in cardboard boxes, as they seem utterly unfamiliar with the many cliches of the genre which this book explores ad nauseum.
What relives the tension a bit is the author's apparent fondness for Bob Dylan, as many catchy phrases from his music appear here and there, scattered like chocolate chips among the white-flour dough of the rest of the narration . . .
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-09-16
another triumph
absolutely terrific story and performance. strongly recommend you try this one and all of tim tigner's offerings.
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- Daniel B.
- 01-01-18
Rapp and Reacher in one amazing character!
Really really enjoyed this book. I’m hooked on Kyle Achilles! Well thought out and executed story line.
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- Catherine J. Pondozzi
- 12-18-16
Exciting book to listen to
The main plot in this book is very suspenseful. i just couldn't wait to find out how it ended & at times i wasn't sure it would. Such intrigue & fresh plot. You go Tim!
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- Rosemary Palmer
- 07-01-18
In the manner of Reacher
Love Dick Hill. Story was good, maybe a little wordy but worth the read. Will read the next book
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- Gina Doolittle
- 09-09-18
instant Tigner fan
what a fun read, enhanced by the always fine rendition by Dick Hill. I'm an instant Tigner fan, and will read his other books eagerly.
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- Lynn
- 10-25-16
Good Story, Bad Reader
Would you listen to Pushing Brilliance again? Why?
No
Who was your favorite character and why?
Katya
Would you be willing to try another one of Dick Hill’s performances?
Dick Hill is one of the worst narrators I have listened to in a long while. Overwrought , pauses when he shouldn't and distracts from the story. He cannot change the voices of the characters. I will not buy a book that he narrates. On the plus side, I fall right back to sleep. I have queued up Chapter 18 twelve times.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Who is more Brilliant?
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