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Ian Thomas Healy
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Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
Such is the credo of the modern mercenary in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Three such antiheroes are brought together by a billionaire for a unique search-and-retrieval mission. If they succeed, they'll walk away free and clear with a big fat payday. But if they fail... Well, things will go badly for them. Their quest will take them to the far corners of the Earth, from central Australia to Brazil to the Eastern European micronation of Borlovia, all in search of one of the world's rarest treasures: the elusive and collectible TIS bottle. Three bottles, three chances to succeed...or fail. What could possibly go wrong?
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Rob Dunbar is the world's best history professor. And with good reason: he's been alive for 3,000 years, keeping his existence a secret since before the days of Athens. But a stranger named Baxter has a better use for Rob's vast expertise. Baxter's looking to found a mining company in the Asteroid Belt. In exchange for Rob's help, he'll try to unravel the mystery of Rob's origin. As they're getting their outfit off the ground, they come under covert attack by HemiCo, a powerful Mars-based corporation.
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Great book
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Crucible: A Max Ahlgren Story
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Captain Max Ahlgren is proud to be one of the first team commanders in the Marine Corps’ nascent MARSOC detachment. Finally, the Corps’ elite warriors are working alongside those of other branches, battling insurgents, not on the front lines but behind them. After his first mission, however, Max learns he will be replaced as team commander.
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Revenge is said best served cold It best high volt
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Coast Guard helicopter pilot Olivia Carver is on a very personal mission. Her twin brother, an undercover officer, was murdered by a drug cartel, and she won't stop until she finds the man responsible for his death. In the course of her own investigation, Olivia meets informant Rico Cortes. He's mysterious and sexy, and despite her reservations, the two share a night of passion. But Rico turns out to be more than a one-night stand....
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Nobody knows the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas like Daniel Faust, a sorcerer for hire and ex-gangster who uses black magic and bullets to solve his clients' problems. When an old man comes seeking vengeance for his murdered granddaughter, what looks like a simple job quickly spirals out of control. Soon Daniel stands in the crossfire between a murderous porn director; a corrupt cop with a quick trigger finger; and his own former employer, a racket boss who isn't entirely human.
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Urban fantasy noir. Done right..
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Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire.
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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
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All Doctor Dire wants to do is save the world. But those pesky heroes keep getting in the way, and it's all she can do to give them a good fight without killing them. Supervillainy is such an underappreciated job these days....
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A good taste
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The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad
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Fletcher Connolly hasn't got a lot to lose. Since he and half the galaxy signed on to the rat race of the technological relics trade, Fletch has come to terms with the idea that he will join the ranks of unlucky explorers that perish light years from home without a dime to his name. But bankruptcy is a great motivator. With friends and family counting on him to strike it rich, Fletch embarks on an unwilling quest for alien treasure.
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I wanted to love this book, but I did like it
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Time is running out for the two nations that once made up the former USA. Weakened by their division, both the Islamic republic and the Bible Belt are threatened by the expansionist dreams of the Atzlan Empire to the south, and their own intellectual decay engendered by their fundamentalist beliefs. The only solution is to reunite the two nations and regain its former glory, and there's only one way to do it, and only one man, Rakkim Epps, who can.
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Utterly engaging and enjoyable
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The Disasters
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Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than 24 hours. But Nax’s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy. Nax and three other washouts escape - barely - but they’re also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats. On the run, Nax and his fellow failures plan to pull off a dangerous heist to spread the truth.
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Fabulous!
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SEAL Team 666
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Halfway through SEAL training, Cadet Jack Walker, still green but showing incredible promise, is whisked away to join four SEALs and their dog for a special-ops mission. Walker soon finds himself in a whirlwind of otherworldly creatures and events as he discovers the true nature of SEAL Team 666. Battling demons, possessed humans, mass-murdering cults, and evil in its darkest and most and ancient form, the members of SEAL Team 666 have their work cut out for them. And it’s not long before they realize that the threat isn’t directed against the US alone....
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Enjoyable way to spend some downtime.
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What listeners say about Troubleshooters: The Longest Joke Ever Told
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- Private
- 10-02-19
Fasted Paced Story... Unique and Enjoyable
"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."
What a rollercoaster of a story; such an exciting listen. Writing was strong and the story was unpredictable and unique. It certainly kept my attention throughout. There is a degree of depth here that is rare to come across, I really felt immersed. Definitely recommend!
Narration was strong and enhanced the experience greatly.
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- RJ
- 12-29-20
Sweet land of liberty!
Troubleshooters is an action-adventure with a unique twist. Haiwee a world-renowned cutter (read hacker), Angel an assassin, and Camaro a courier are Troubleshooters LLC. The crew is hired by a multi-billionaire to retrieve three rare (TIS) bottles. Once the target is revealed, Haiwee hires a young cutter Carmelita, and Tatiana the AI to round out the crew. The twist and the fun part for me is Haiwee‘s hacking visualization. Haiwee and her accomplices begin to execute the process of hacking the Inquisitor computer system. Haiwee, Carmelita, and Tatiana slip into a trance-like state. They find themselves in a virtual fantasy world; Haiwee the Valkerie, Tatiana the winged owl, and Carmelita the dragon. They attack the Inquisitor castle with their army of nanobots, protecting themselves with 64-bit and 128-bit encryption shields, bombarding the fortress with logic bombs and plague virus. The entire visualization is played out as in an online fantasy game. Ultimately, killing the Inquisitor Black Dragon i.e. disabling and shutting down the target system. All-in-all, it was quite exciting and very amusing. The quest for the three bottles covered the world, from Brazil to London, to the King’s palace of Borlovia. The epic conclusion was classic tomfoolery. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- richard r reeves
- 02-03-18
Healy puts crack in the popcorn with this novel.
What did you love best about Troubleshooters: The Longest Joke Ever Told?
Many stories that have an adversarial artificial intelligence would use it as the main story line. The same with corrupt religious leaders, rampaging cyborgs, out of control hackers and drug deals gone bad.
In Troubleshooters, these themes are mere story arcs.
Healy keeps taking you higher.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Angel, the assassin dominates the story and holds your attention at gun point. She focuses the action and characters at just about every part of the novel. Even when others antics are center stage such as Camaro's chase near the beginning, the action lands at Angels feet. Angels energy pushes the story right to the punchline.
Have you listened to any of Nicholas Patrella’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I can't recall any other works I have heard narrated by Nicholas Patrella, but he did a good job differentiating the characters tonally. His performance helped carry the story along. His energy in the action sequences, especially, riveted your attention.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
I could see Troubleshooters as a movie or better yet a miniseries. The international venues and exotic tech would give each episode a different focus. The series has action, gadgets and a bag of chips.
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- Kristen Tsetsi
- 06-12-19
Capers!
Ian Thomas Healy has a special knack for blending story, characters, and action without letting one element overwhelm the others.
In Troubleshooters, Healy introduces us to a rich cast of characters who are engaging as well as a delightful 180 in their interpersonal dynamic to what we typically see in fiction/movies/TV (Healy is probably one of the more consistently equalist writers I've read). Because we know the characters, because they're very real in their quirks and complexities, when the time comes for them to take on a mission, we're interested in how they'll react, how they'll plan, how they'll deal with obstacles, and what every tense moment means to them. I will typically fall asleep during any story (movie or otherwise) when the action gets too heavy, but even though Healy's action snowballs into action on top of action in the latter portion of Troubleshooters, I was rarely not engaged. Not only because of the writing, but because of the
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Nicholas Patrella is fantastic. His accents and voices differentiate one character from the next, the noises he makes for his characters (laughter, sighs, scoffs, or the snarfling gurgle of being choked or stabbed) seem spontaneous and natural and just right for the moment/character, and when the action gets going, when the tension is high, you can hear it in his delivery.
A lively, entertaining, and often funny book.
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- Anonymous
- 02-15-18
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I thought the narration was amazing but the story was lacking depth. Overall it was a good listen.
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- TU
- 02-20-18
not for me
I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
I struggled with this book a bit. I liked the overall story line and the cyberpunk feel to it. The big thing I had a hard time with was the sexual scenes. Basically, it was a 16 year old boy having graphic sex with two adult women. I just felt like the author glosses over the fact that this is wrong (i.e. statutory rape, consensual or not) and it just didn't add to the story to me. I mean, if the author was making a point with it, that would be one thing, but it was just seemed like sex to add sex to the story...
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- Adam Bogovich
- 03-12-21
Interesting look at the future
I really liked this book. was set in a near future where cybernetic implants were very common, but not too far out that current day sayings and such. made it a bit more relatable than the stories set hundreds of years in the future. I also really liked the action scenes.
The performance was also really great. all characters were unique and inflections were spot on.
As a note, there was more recurring sexual content than expected. nothing too crazy, just kept on coming up.
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- mike s.
- 12-05-19
Subtitle put me off, but great book
The subtitle put me off, but I dove in anyway. Glad I did. Fun characters, great sci-fi concepts all told in a fun, fast paced adventure that did not disappoint. The subtitle – and the pay off for that at the end of the book was the weakest feature, but somehow still came together and was satisfying.
Talented Voice actor.
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- Margaret
- 03-25-21
Interim review
Circumstances prevent me from writing an extensive review. I shall update this as soon as I am able.
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- Lonnie-The GreatNorthernTroll-Moore
- 02-02-18
Hold onto your hat...
Grab on to something sturdy, and hold on to your hat... You're about to be blown away by this blockbuster of a tale!
This is an action packed heist story, which is a trope that I've come to realize is one of my favorites... I love that edge-of-the-seat, spine tingling sensation I get when the characters go for the prize (Please Don't Get Caught, DON'T GET CAUGHT). And it gets me every time!
This is the story of Angel, sometimes know as Angel of Death, she is a kick-butt, no nonsense hit-man, er, hit-woman, who happens to be down on her luck for the moment. She takes a job sight unseen, and she is told that she'll need a team. Her 1st recruit is Haiwee, a kick-butt hacker. For her Wheelman, she enlists Camaro, a monowheel racer who just possibly has more balls than brains... With her team chosen she's ready to discover what she has gotten them into... and it's gonna take all 3 of 'em if they want to complete the job and collect a 9 million dollar payoff!
I loved the audio edition of Troubleshooters. The narrator, Nicholas Petrella, handled all the characters and accents with aplomb... and I actually laughed out loud, because at times Nicholas sounded more like a spectator (not a reader) who's actually watching the events as they unfold, exactly like that excitement a sportscaster conveys as they describe the high speed, bumper to bumper, adrenaline driven antics of the drivers in a Formula 1 race!
And the ending... Wow! Lets just say it slayed me... I really hope the future brings us more stories in this series. Go team Troubleshooters!
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