The Switch
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Joseph Finder
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A simple mix up throws an innocent man into the cross-hairs of sinister government secrets and ruthless political ambitions in this timely, electrifying thriller from New York Times best-selling author Joseph Finder.
Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line. He doesn't notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it's too late. Tanner's curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that the owner is a US senator and that the laptop contains top secret files.
When Senator Susan Robbins realizes she's come back with the wrong laptop, she calls her young chief of staff, Will Abbott, in a panic. Both know that the senator broke the law by uploading classified documents onto her personal computer. If those documents wind up in the wrong hands, it could be Snowden 2.0 - and her career in politics will be over. She needs to recover the MacBook before it's too late.
When Will fails to gain Tanner's cooperation, he is forced to take measures to retrieve the laptop before a bigger security breach is revealed. He turns to an unscrupulous "fixer" for help. In the meantime the security agency whose files the senator has appropriated has its own methods, darker still - and suddenly Tanner finds himself a hunted man, on the run, terrified for the safety of his family, in desperate need of a plan, and able to trust no one.
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- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado - a state-run mental hospital - and is taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob.
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Another Stephanie Plum
- By Don on 08-30-12
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Black Fridays
- By: Michael Sears
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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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!
- By John on 05-16-14
By: Michael Sears
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Dangerous Games
- Sinclair & McCallum, Book 1
- By: Michael Prescott
- Narrated by: Suehyla El Attar
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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A killer is using labyrinthine storm drains to dispose of his victims, who are found handcuffed and drowned, washed out of the rain-filled drainage lines like garbage. The crimes compel FBI Agent Tess McCallum to crack the case, but they're touching a nerve in Personal Security Consultant Abby Sinclair. She fears it's the same madman who invaded her nightmares once before. As the two women work with each other to solve the case, tensions rise and tempers flare. And as sure as the rain, a new killing season begins.
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A thrilling ride with great characters!
- By Aaron P. Lazar on 08-20-12
By: Michael Prescott
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Darknet
- By: Matthew Mather
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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One minute Jake O'Connell is on top of the world, with a beautiful family and bright future as a stock broker in New York; the next it's all ripped away when he's embroiled in a fraud investigation, his childhood friend is murdered, and he finds himself on the run. Dodging the FBI and targeted by the Mob, Jake is thrown into a Wall Street underworld of crypto currencies and autonomous corporations, where he discovers a dark secret setting the world on a path to destruction.
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Good Outline, bad book
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-25-16
By: Matthew Mather
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The Catalyst
- By: Boyd Morrison
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Chemistry grad student Kevin Hamilton is sure his advisor Michael Ward's death in a suspicious fire was no accident. The young PhD candidate received a cryptic message from Ward just before the fatal blaze - a warning that their recent collaboration on a supposedly failed experiment had actually brought about one of the most important discoveries of the century: Adamas, a chemical process worth billions, and one with the potential to topple entire industries.
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Good story. Unfortunate narration.
- By David J Wilson on 03-14-19
By: Boyd Morrison
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The Bricklayer
- A Novel
- By: Noah Boyd
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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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
- By Jen on 04-22-12
By: Noah Boyd
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The Stranger
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar or a parking lot or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world.
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What a disappointment....Semi Spoilers
- By Big jim Picotto on 03-24-15
By: Harlan Coben
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The Fallen
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am 29 years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector.
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OK, but...
- By Robert E. Orlando on 01-01-14
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Weekend Warriors
- Sisterhood, Book 1
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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Weekend Warriors
- By Ms Mare on 04-04-09
By: Fern Michaels
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Short Squeeze
- By: Chris Knopf
- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Meet smart-aleck Southampton attorney Jackie Swaitkowski. Her business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that she finds herself working on something bigger, and more dangerous, than real estate.
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Great Listen - Good Series
- By Patricia on 02-15-10
By: Chris Knopf
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- Francine Marie Poirier
- 06-16-17
Could be better
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I always look forward to Finder's books but this one has a lot of holes. Assumptions are made and events go unexplained. Some actions and characters are a little unbelievable (and a bit of a caricature). Could be a good story if it was more "padded". I'll give Finder some points for his After 911 description of our world - scary. The narrator performance was great, as always. Will keep on buying Finder's books but I expect a little more next time.
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- Susan
- 08-06-17
This is not Finder's finest.
I wanted to strangle the protagonist, but I guess he had to be a dweeb so the book could be longer than a short story.
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- twiggray
- 07-15-17
Great book!!!
Really enjoyed this book. Great writer and great plot. Loved the characters. Highly recommend it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-07-17
Joesph Finder, there is no substitute!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Switch to be better than the print version?
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Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Always, it's Finder
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I have never been disappointed by Finder, he is the best. Plot, clarity, character development and relevance.
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- Jeff T
- 06-21-17
Great finish!
Finder starts this book a little slower than his other works but the middle and end are fantastic. Actually waited a half hour to sleep because the climax was so good. Finder is my favorite author because I enjoy he does his research and stays current. And audible has great story tellers too
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- Kenneth L Pieper
- 09-26-17
Two idiots do stupid things over and over again .
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The story line was so absurd, I couldn't stop listening to find out what would happen
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- sandy
- 06-08-19
Why too Unbelievable
Great narration but the story is just way too far-fetched! I see there’s a sequel but I can’t imagine that it’s less far-fetched!
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- William T.
- 09-16-22
Good Story, but not so realistic
I guess since it's a novel it doesn't have to be realistic. Call it a pet peeve of mine. I prefer realistic stories. Even so, I enjoyed it. I will get other titles from this author. This was my first novel by James Finder.
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- Linda
- 08-03-17
Steven Kearney is a terrific narrator!
The story line kept me very intrigued. New Joseph Finder series? I definitely think do.
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- Flyboy
- 10-25-20
Well balanced mixture of action & espionage
Michael Tanner returns home from a business trip, and while at the airport, he picks up the wrong laptop in baggage. The laptop belongs to a US senator who has some files stored that she (and many other people) would rather not see the light of day. Once Michael realizes what he has - documents about a shadowy covert operation called Chrysalis - and who it belongs to, he's on the run to save himself and his family.
Michael is nobody special. He's an every day coffee shop owner way in over his head.. One that people would kill for to keep from the public. There's a balanced mixture of action and espionage as this man's life is turned upside down. Micheal learns he's smarter and braver than he ever thought, and he's willing to go the distance to protect everything he lives for.
Sure, it's another in a long line of government-spies-on-American-citizens books, but Finder doesn't approach it as anything but. He knows we've been here before, but he's clearly having fun with Michael, and I did too. This is not the kind of thing that is supposed to happen to an everyman like Michael. He's the little guy, and watching him take on forces bigger than himself is where Finder's imaginative writing really shines through.
Finder made a good choice in not making the antagonist a mustache twirling walking trope whose lines you can telegraph pages beforehand. There is just as much depth to the character as there is to very likable Tanner, and you can almost understand the motivations behind such a desperate attempt at keeping such a deadly operation out of the eyes of the American public.
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