
The Bomb Maker
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Narrated by:
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Joe Barrett
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By:
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Thomas Perry
A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences - half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds.
The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Having just returned from a grueling job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but senior technicians he had trained were among those killed. On his first day back at the head of the squad, Stahl's team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb outside a gas station. It quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with the same mastermind behind the weapon that killed 14 highly trained men and women barely 24 hours before - and that the intended target may be the Bomb Squad itself.
As the shadowy organization sponsoring this campaign of terror puts increasing pressure on the bomb maker, and Stahl becomes dangerously entangled with a member of his own team, the fuse on this high-stakes plot only burns faster. The Bomb Maker is Thomas Perry's biggest, most unstoppable thriller yet.
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A most engaging listen
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The Publishers summery is spot on so no need to add to it. I do use the 1.25x speed to match the authors adventure.
Must be an engineer type to love ALL the explosive devices narrated. I lost interest but wanted to see how our hero got his man. If there is a sequel and Joe Barrett narrates, it will have to be on a daily deal for me to continue with this author.
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Love me some Thomas Perry.
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Excellent!!!
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Thomas Perry does it again!
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Interesting story, and then it ended....
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Enjoyable
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In any case, the only complaint that I have with The Bomb Maker is that the bad guy is just your regular bad guy. He makes bombs that kill people. Many people. And there is absolutely nothing about him that you can sympathize with, or identify with, or feel any human warmth toward. He is simply a mechanical monster who builds bombs to wreak maximum mayhem. The good guys are great: Richard Stahl and Diane Hines are cops who meet while they are working on the LAPD Bomb Squad. They fall in love, which of course is a no-no these days (since he is her supervisor) but they are both so good at their jobs (particularly Stahl) that the LAPD is forced to overlook their all-too-human passion for each other. The plot gathers steam slowly, at the beginning. I do have another complaint here. There is way too much detail about how bombs work and are created. I got a bit bored with all this detail, a thing which I hardly ever do when reading Mr. Perry. However, when these details are explicated, at too great a length, the plot is free to dominate the book, along with the star-crossed lovers' affair, and you are gripping the arms of your chair by the end.
I was disappointed by Forty Thieves, the first Perry book that I was not able to finish. A radical and revolting development, in my view. However, The Old Man was next, and it was so great that I was relieved, not having to entertain the horrible thought that Mr. Perry might be aging and losing a step or two. The Bomb Maker demonstrates that Mr. Perry definitely still has it, even if he (and who among us isn't?) is getting along in years. It is definitely worth your time and a credit. Joe Barrett is once again terrific, although I felt at various places along the way that he was being made to read much too quickly. By the end of the book all misgivings are forgotten, as Mr. Perry rules the roost of thriller writers all over the globe.
I hope you enjoy Mr. Perry as much as I do. If you haven't read The Butcher's Boy (his first book, almost thirty years old) or The Old Man, which is recent, please go get those two books, and settle yourself down to a stretch of the best writing that you can find. Enjoy.
I miss only one thing, but that's a quibble.
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