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Fatal Alliance
- Matthew Riker, Book 5
- By: J.T. Baier
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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After the defeat of Charles Fraction, things are going well for Matthew Riker. His relationship with Jessica has never been stronger, he has a team he can trust, and QS-4 is focused on making the world a better place. But when Riker and his team take a seemingly simple job to hand off a briefcase in a luxury hotel in Monaco, he finds himself up against a thief who has planned for every eventuality and is always three steps ahead. Things quickly fall apart.
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You're badder
- By M. Woods on 07-12-24
- Fatal Alliance
- Matthew Riker, Book 5
- By: J.T. Baier
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Another solid installment
Reviewed: 08-22-24
What can I say-- this is a good way to spend a day. Baier isn't Shakespeare or Fitzgerald and probably won't be studied at Harvard or Yale but he doesn't try to be either man! He knows what his readers want and he delivers!
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The Year of the Locust
- A Thriller
- By: Terry Hayes
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
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If, like Kane, you’re a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again—by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide—and when to shoot. But some places don’t play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane’s experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet are such a place—a place where violence is the only way to survive.
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Not really a sequel to Pilgrim
- By Alison in CA on 02-08-24
- The Year of the Locust
- A Thriller
- By: Terry Hayes
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
A hard book to rate
Reviewed: 08-14-24
Yes, the writer is as skilled with words as he was in "I AM PILGRIM," but this story takes so many irrelevant off-shoots that by the end you just want it to do just that-- END.
There are so many diversions that make no plot-driven need that you have to surmise the author kept them for the sole reason of his own vanity and why any editor or publisher allowed them to remain will, I presume, remain a mystery.
Needless to say, the fact that book finally reaches the near-possible conclusion only for the writer to decide that he needs a twist so he jumps the shark and decided to turn a novel about espionage into bad science fiction-- science-fiction that not only bends the elements but credulity, leaves one perplexed.
Again, if you make it through the insufferable length and inane final plot twist you are just happy when it finally ends.
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Whiskey & Roses
- The Xander King Series, Book 1
- By: Bradley Wright
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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The world knows him as a handsome, charismatic, and successful young businessman. The CIA knows Xander as the US military's most legendary soldier, turned vigilante assassin, who sharpens his skills in the shadows until he can exact revenge on the monster that murdered his family. They have watched his double life go on long enough, and now the government wants their weapon back. Xander has different plans. After a passionate night with Hollywood sweetheart Natalie Rockwell is violently interrupted by a surprise attack at Xander's home, those plans are set in motion.
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Ah, the juvenile personalities of man whores
- By Trudy Owens on 10-22-20
- Whiskey & Roses
- The Xander King Series, Book 1
- By: Bradley Wright
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
Somewhat confounding
Reviewed: 07-03-24
I am not exactly sure how to explain that this book is somehow related to a different series by the same author and with the same main character but the two different series seem to overlap timelines. This effort lays out a superhero and greatest SEAL to ever live but who royally screws up and it’s his friends that pay the price and then just sort of ends leaving more questions than answers. It felt like a half effort or just a setup that was deceptively solid as a completed work.
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Red Sky Mourning
- A Thriller
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast.
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Carr’s writing is fast, tense and UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!
- By shelley on 06-19-24
- Red Sky Mourning
- A Thriller
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Jack Carr is one of the greats
Reviewed: 06-26-24
Reading a Carr novel, you know he has been there, done that, got the T-shirt, and then decided to tell the tales in fiction.
You also know you won't get a DEI/SJW lecture while you take the ride. Who could ask for more?
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Black Flag
- A Jake Keller Thriller, Book 3
- By: David Ricciardi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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After years of relative calm, piracy has returned to the high sea. But the days of AK-47s and outboard engines are over. The new pirates hit like a SEAL team. Ships and crews are vanishing at a staggering rate. Jake Keller has a plan - to lure the pirate mastermind out of hiding by infiltrating his organization - but it’s a dangerous gambit, made more so by Jake's personal involvement with the beautiful heiress to a Greek shipping fortune and an ulterior agenda coming out of CIA headquarters.
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Jake Keller - A One Man Army!!!!
- By shelley on 05-20-20
- Black Flag
- A Jake Keller Thriller, Book 3
- By: David Ricciardi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
A Crocodile is NOT a mammal
Reviewed: 06-20-24
I know it’s a little thing but something so bad should have been caught in the editing process. The fact that it wasn’t makes me question the entire publishing industry. Basic quality has fallen but prices haven’t
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Shadow Target
- A Jake Keller Thriller, Book 4
- By: David Ricciardi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Jake doesn't know who is trying to kill him, and he doesn't know why. Still, it's a threat he can't ignore. When his small plane crashes in the Alps, Jake is the only survivor. A rescue helicopter soon arrives, but the men inside are not there to save anyone. They are determined to complete the murderous job they started. Jake escapes from the mountainside deathtrap, but it won't be the only attempt on his life. If he's to have any chance at surviving, he'll have to find out who's behind the killings. But the circle of people Jake can trust is distressingly small.
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Best one yet!!!!
- By shelley on 06-16-21
- Shadow Target
- A Jake Keller Thriller, Book 4
- By: David Ricciardi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
The narrator saves the series
Reviewed: 06-20-24
The main character in this book is hardly recognizable as he was in his first. It would be understandable if it was because of a progression but instead the writer seemingly wants to cherry pick attributes depending on the situation. I find it harder to root for the hero because you can’t be sure who he actually is
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Wide Awake
- Devin Gray, Book 3
- By: Steven Konkoly
- Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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After taking out a sleeper network, Devin Gray and Marnie Young are picking up the pieces of their disrupted lives. But the gravity of the conspiracy they helped to cripple is sucking them right back into the black hole of violence and subterfuge that nearly consumed them. Another sleeper network is awake. A progressive congresswoman dies in a car explosion, vaporized by an American kamikaze drone—the beginning of the mayhem to come. What Devin dismantled is being rebuilt. The plan: ignite a civil war in the United States and burn America to the ground.
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Why get political?
- By aaron on 12-20-23
- Wide Awake
- Devin Gray, Book 3
- By: Steven Konkoly
- Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
I am just sick to death of political agendas
Reviewed: 05-12-24
Especially when they are not based in any sense of reality.
Right-wingers are not the people protesting outside politicians houses. That would be the "progressives."
"Progressives" are not the politicians fighting for free-speech. That would be the right-wingers.
Right-wingers are not the ones causing violence throughout the country. That would be the "progressives."
However... writers time and again are pushing books that flip reality on its head and it seriously makes one question the mental health and capacity of the writers.
This book has some good action but you have to believe in a bizarro world to actually believe in it. Sorry, but this book could have been so much better had they tried to use a different plot device than trying to paint 1/2 the country as loony-tune, backward-thinking hicks...
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A Team of Three
- An Unsanctioned Asset Thriller, Book 3
- By: Brad Lee
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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America’s newest enemy launches an audacious plan to incapacitate the country. A never-before-seen danger is about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting public. And the world faces a crisis unlike any before. Can intelligence analyst Haley put the puzzle together in time from the safety of her office—or is she meant to risk it all as a field asset? Is Axe, a former Navy SEAL, capable of overcoming a foe with nothing to lose?
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don't waste your money
- By Alvaro on 01-17-24
- A Team of Three
- An Unsanctioned Asset Thriller, Book 3
- By: Brad Lee
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
Totally ridiculous
Reviewed: 05-01-24
This genre is notoriously filled with scenarios outside the box of believability but this book is next level. Couple that with a shift in the timeline that must have been missed during editing and it literally had me yelling out loud at the situations and the characters and the “supposed heroes” completely irresponsible behavior and decisions that would place thousands of innocent people in mortal danger and possibly cause a global war all to protect a politician makes one question if they are even the “good guys.” To end it with one of the most evil characters basically getting a free pass makes me question if it is time to stop listening to the series.
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Kingmaker
- Alex King, Book 16
- By: A P Bateman
- Narrated by: Joe Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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King battles with his conscience and ruthless enemies as he deposes an African dictator and installs a new leader. But is he the best man for the job, and can King make a difference in a region known only for corruption and killing?
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The book is good, and I like the series, BUT...
- By Caleb-Matt Williams on 10-23-23
- Kingmaker
- Alex King, Book 16
- By: A P Bateman
- Narrated by: Joe Mills
The book is good, and I like the series, BUT...
Reviewed: 10-23-23
Of course there is a BUT.
BUT, the series keeps jumping around in time. Book 13, Congo Contract, was a prequel of sorts-- shifting us back 20 years into the past. Dead Man Walking and Sovereign Power-- Books 14 & 15, shifted us back to the "present" and to where Book 12, Hunter Killer, had left off.
Well, Book 16, Kingmaker, transports us back in time to just following when Book 13 was set. The jump is never explained, never acknowledged and it is jarring! It just makes it difficult to figure out which Alex King the reader is in store for-- the young brash man still finding his way, or the older, wiser and settled down King in a happy relationship with Caroline. If the jumps in time were at least acknowledged or part of the plotline in some way it would make more sense and, quite frankly, would result in a more polished series that would be more enjoyable.
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Without Sanction
- A Matt Drake Thriller, Book 1
- By: Don Bentley
- Narrated by: Jack Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Defense Intelligence Agency operative Matt Drake broke a promise. A promise that cost three people their lives and crippled his best friend. Three months later, he's paralyzed by survivor's guilt and haunted by the memories of the fallen. Matt may have left Syria, but Syria hasn't left him. In the midst of his self-imposed exile, Matt is dragged back into the world of espionage and assets that he tried to forget. A Pakistani scientist working for an ISIS splinter cell has created a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.
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Spoilers that could save you 10 hours
- By DUEY B. on 04-25-20
- Without Sanction
- A Matt Drake Thriller, Book 1
- By: Don Bentley
- Narrated by: Jack Armstrong
Not optimistic about the future
Reviewed: 09-20-23
This book has long been on my "to-read" list. What finally pushed me to read it was the announcement that Bentley would be taking over the Vince Flynn Mitch Rapp series. Sadly, I am not optimistic about the future of the Rapp-verse.
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