
Silent Snow
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Narrated by:
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David Birney
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By:
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Steve Thayer
In this sequel to the best-selling thriller The Weatherman, an investigative reporter embarks on a personal quest for justice and revenge.
In the midst of a savage Minnesota blizzard, investigative reporter Rick Beanblossom receives an anonymous note—much like the one Charles Lindbergh and his family received when their infant son was kidnapped many decades ago. As he searches for his own son, Rick must not only relive the horrors of his Vietnam tour when Napalm destroyed his face, but also research the tragic circumstances of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Fighting the perilous weather and racing against time, Rick desperately searches for clues in history's most infamous kidnapping—clues that may solve his own painful loss.
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Audiobook read by David Birney, a 10 plus hour listen. The story is about the modern day kidnapping of a baby with a paralell to the Lindbergh case of 1932. The author mixes fact with fiction, creating a historical scenario of wild speculation. If you’re looking for factual detail regarding the Lindbergh case, please don’t depend on this book. Some of it is true, most is not and is a fictionalized version of actual events. If you take historical fiction seriously, you may take a pass on Silent Snow, there really is no detail about the world as it was in 1932, only fictionally created characters. If your interest is simply a good mystery, the book is well worth a purchase. It may take time to get into the voice and rhythm of the reader, David Birney, as a few characters sound a little too decrepit.Silent Snow
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More Steve Thayer!!
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One note: The audio is muffled and causes the listener to miss passages. If possible, this should be corrected. David Birney works so hard and the sound quality thwarts him often.
Literary Genius
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worth a listen
great ride, bring your overcoat
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Thayer weaves a tale of intrigue ranging from World War I to the modern day. He manufactures new criminal characters, cops, and news reporters with detailed obsessive/compulsive backgrounds. He creates heroes, and heroines of a terrible crime. “Silent Snow” is a re-creation of a crime of the past, the Lindbergh baby’s kidnapping and bludgeoning. Thayer may or may not have the same ending in his modern-day version of the kidnapping. David Birney’s telling of Thayer’s mystery keeps listeners waiting for answers until the last chapters’ closing.
Thayer has great imagination with excellent descriptive' skill. The recorded facts of the Lindbergh’ kidnapping are nicely recreated, including involvement of General Schwarzkopf Senior (America’s “Desert Storm” General’s father) in the original investigation; i.e. the kidnapping is an important incident in American’ history because it led to the Lindbergh law that shifted investigation of kidnapping from local to national control. The irony of that shift plays out in “Silent Snow” as a questionable federal government usurpation of power. Mistakes are made by the federal government as readily as they are by local government. Putting that observation aside, the story is interesting; overly melodramatic, but worth the time for a mystery’s unfolding.
IMAGINATION AND MYSTERY
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Addictive
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It's extremely well done, a tale of two kidnappings, the story of the famous kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and another recreated in modern times, with the child of a very popular TV news anchor. I didn't remember much of the story of the Lindbergh kidnapping, but the historical parts, intersperced with the contemporary drama, was really well done. The scenes at Fort Snelling were so tense I had to stop what I was doing and just listen.
The whole audio production was marvelous, with the tinkling speakeasy music to introduce the historical parts, plus a great narrator. I hated for this book to end.
More from Steve Thayer, please!
Astonishingly good!
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I am completely enthralled with this book.
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Too hard to understand
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Great book
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