-
After the Monsoon
- An Ernst Grip Novel
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
![Prime logotipo](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/Audible/Homestead/Prime_Logo_RGB.png)
Compra ahora por $26.99
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Grandes primeros Títulos
![The Gray Man Audiolibro Por Mark Greaney arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41N8g0ImD9L._SL240_.jpg)
![The 6:20 Man Audiolibro Por David Baldacci arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rHDm1UDlL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Hunt for Red October Audiolibro Por Tom Clancy arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512ZGRwNGiL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Huntress Audiolibro Por Kate Quinn arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TptSvhIWL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Teeth of the Tiger Audiolibro Por Tom Clancy arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51iQ27lfrFL._SL240_.jpg)
![Killers of a Certain Age Audiolibro Por Deanna Raybourn arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41M9uIQrCCL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Last Monument Audiolibro Por Michael C. Grumley arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WoSEOGHyL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Keeper of Lost Causes Audiolibro Por Jussi Adler-Olsen arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61AOVkqqRRL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Cuban Affair Audiolibro Por Nelson DeMille arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ifj1NrO8L._SL240_.jpg)
![Operation Joktan Audiolibro Por Amir Tsarfati, Steve Yohn arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51mcBnppmKL._SL240_.jpg)
![Triple Audiolibro Por Ken Follett arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5147ggffzrL._SL240_.jpg)
![Blaze Me a Sun Audiolibro Por Christoffer Carlsson arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51lG39+HbTL._SL240_.jpg)
![I Am Pilgrim Audiolibro Por Terry Hayes arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61x22XbYzAL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Forgotten Audiolibro Por David Baldacci arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TJYIcN07L._SL240_.jpg)
![Assassin Series, Four Novel Bundle Audiolibro Por Russell Blake arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61oZJQarxwL._SL240_.jpg)
![Gold in the Keys: A Logan Dodge Adventure Audiolibro Por Matthew Rief arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51X8H5wKRqL._SL240_.jpg)
![Predator Audiolibro Por Wilbur Smith arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5111EeI8G-L._SL240_.jpg)
![Dinner at the Center of the Earth Audiolibro Por Nathan Englander arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51okHqOoxUL._SL240_.jpg)
![An American Spy Audiolibro Por Olen Steinhauer arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pPqfKtZCL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Perfect Assassin Audiolibro Por Ward Larsen arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51P+qMor3QL._SL240_.jpg)
![Outbreak Audiolibro Por Davis Bunn arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51oCH94RjWL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Catch Audiolibro Por Taylor Stevens arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Lb9HwuMHL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Return Audiolibro Por Michael Gruber arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VgRKoTLML._SL240_.jpg)
![Abuse of Power Audiolibro Por Michael Savage arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51u6y9FHnGL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Trinity Game Audiolibro Por Sean Chercover arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OB-o-uFgL._SL240_.jpg)
![A Time for War Audiolibro Por Michael Savage arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hTQCSWGgL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Tears of Dark Water Audiolibro Por Corban Addison arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61E6Xe7dx+L._SL240_.jpg)
![Layover in Dubai Audiolibro Por Dan Fesperman arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+HFyNn5rL._SL240_.jpg)
![Aurelio Zen: And Then You Die Audiolibro Por Michael Dibdin arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Q6L-WJglL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Moonlit Earth Audiolibro Por Christopher Rice arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jOPoqhQoL._SL240_.jpg)
Resumen del Editor
From the author of the international best seller The Swede comes an electrifying thriller set in the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa - where the sea caresses the desert, alliances shift like sand, and a Swedish detective can count on nothing but his own shrewdness to survive.
A Swedish army lieutenant drops dead on a shooting range in the desert. Was it an unfortunate accident - or something more nefarious? Ernst Grip, an agent of the Swedish security police, is sent to the Horn of Africa to find out. Once he’s on the ground, however, he quickly discovers he’s on his own. No one wants him snooping around - especially not the US Embassy’s CIA station. Which is no surprise, given that military transport planes are leaving from the base carrying untraceable pallets loaded with cash.
What’s more, Grip’s investigation is complicated by another dangerous situation. Somali pirates have kidnapped a wealthy Swedish family during the adventure of a lifetime: a sailing trip from Sweden to the Great Barrier Reef. Why, Grip wonders, is no one back home willing to pay the ransom in order to save these innocent lives?
Solving the mystery of the soldier’s death isn’t the end of Grip’s involvement - it’s a tipping point that leads him deep into a web of intrigue, greed, and dark dealings ensnaring both allies and enemies...and a world where no one can be trusted.
After the Monsoon explores the tough compromises made every day in pursuit of the greater good. How do you know which is the lesser of two evils? And what is the cost of betraying one interest to save another? In this provocative, pulse-pounding, and sophisticated thriller, Robert Karjel vividly creates a world in which the stains of innocent blood cannot be cleansed, and the sins of good men forced to make impossible choices cannot be washed away.
Relacionado con este tema
-
The Moonlit Earth
- De: Christopher Rice
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice comes an evocative psychological thriller about a woman who must try to save her brother’s reputation and life when he is accused of being involved in a terrorist act.
-
-
Over-analyzed characters and their actions.
- De Artur en 09-07-10
De: Christopher Rice
-
Triple
- A Novel
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: Raza Jaffrey
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
-
-
Triple poorly performed
- De Jpop en 03-13-21
De: Ken Follett
-
Layover in Dubai
- A Novel
- De: Dan Fesperman
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change. And what better spot for business-class hedonism than the boomtown of Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slopes of a shopping mall. But when a colleague is murdered during a night on the town, Sam soon finds himself waist-deep in a bewildering, lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, and crooked cops.
-
-
Loved it!
- De Tracy Staines en 10-18-10
De: Dan Fesperman
-
Taking Morgan
- A Political Thriller
- De: David Rose
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life - mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer - with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
-
-
unrealistic
- De Coverdale en 08-09-22
De: David Rose
-
Liars & Thieves
- Tommy Carmellini, Book 1
- De: Stephen Coonts
- Narrado por: Guerin Barry
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
-
-
Fast Paced - Good Read!
- De Andrew Stone en 01-11-09
De: Stephen Coonts
-
Book of Secrets
- De: Chris Roberson
- Narrado por: Peter Brooke
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It will take more than angels and demons to stop him. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left to him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction.
-
-
Rating < 0
- De Sandra en 04-04-16
De: Chris Roberson
-
The Moonlit Earth
- De: Christopher Rice
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice comes an evocative psychological thriller about a woman who must try to save her brother’s reputation and life when he is accused of being involved in a terrorist act.
-
-
Over-analyzed characters and their actions.
- De Artur en 09-07-10
De: Christopher Rice
-
Triple
- A Novel
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: Raza Jaffrey
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
-
-
Triple poorly performed
- De Jpop en 03-13-21
De: Ken Follett
-
Layover in Dubai
- A Novel
- De: Dan Fesperman
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change. And what better spot for business-class hedonism than the boomtown of Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slopes of a shopping mall. But when a colleague is murdered during a night on the town, Sam soon finds himself waist-deep in a bewildering, lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, and crooked cops.
-
-
Loved it!
- De Tracy Staines en 10-18-10
De: Dan Fesperman
-
Taking Morgan
- A Political Thriller
- De: David Rose
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life - mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer - with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
-
-
unrealistic
- De Coverdale en 08-09-22
De: David Rose
-
Liars & Thieves
- Tommy Carmellini, Book 1
- De: Stephen Coonts
- Narrado por: Guerin Barry
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
-
-
Fast Paced - Good Read!
- De Andrew Stone en 01-11-09
De: Stephen Coonts
-
Book of Secrets
- De: Chris Roberson
- Narrado por: Peter Brooke
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It will take more than angels and demons to stop him. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left to him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction.
-
-
Rating < 0
- De Sandra en 04-04-16
De: Chris Roberson
-
The American
- Ryan Kealey, Book 1
- De: Andrew Britton
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
At 33, Ryan Kealey has achieved more in his military and CIA career than most men can dream of in a lifetime. He's also seen the worst life has to offer and is lucky to have survived it. But being left alone with his demons is no longer an option. The CIA needs him badly, because the enemy they're facing is former U.S. soldier Jason March. Ryan knows all about March - he trained him.
-
-
Decent Characters, Decent Plot, AWFUL Production
- De ShelterMe en 11-08-14
De: Andrew Britton
-
Tarantula
- A John Milton Short Story
- De: Mark Dawson
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
-
-
John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- De Wayne en 06-03-16
De: Mark Dawson
-
The Crook Factory
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence - and the game turns deadly.
-
-
Really well researched spy novel
- De Brian en 07-08-11
De: Dan Simmons
-
Scorpion Betrayal
- De: Andrew Kaplan
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo cafe - his assailant a faceless killer known only as "the Palestinian". It is the opening move in a chilling game of terror that has caught the international intelligence community completely off-guard, and the CIA turns to the one man they believe can get to the twisted roots of a looming nightmare shrouded in mystery: a former Company operative code-named Scorpion.
-
-
Detailed espionage, character development shallow
- De Kathryn en 11-20-13
De: Andrew Kaplan
-
The Cleaner
- De: Elisabeth Herrmann
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.
-
-
Reader was very distracting
- De Merry Unbirthday en 10-16-17
-
Island
- De: Thomas Perry
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This riveting and entertaining thriller by Thomas Perry follows a husband-and-wife con team on the run from the Mob, a soldier of fortune between jobs, a two-bit operator with grandiose dreams of tribal dynasty, a sultry CIA operative with divided loyalties, the most dazzling defector ever to hurl a split-fingered fastball, and 20th-century buccaneers who wash up on a tiny island in the Caribbean and turn it into a multinational cash machine. But then the shooting starts.
-
-
Not good Thomas Perry
- De Sean Cunningham en 08-26-18
De: Thomas Perry
-
Vulcan's Forge
- A Novel
- De: Jack Du Brul
- Narrado por: J. Charles
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Beneath the Pacific Ocean a volcano surges upward, carrying in its fiery heart a mineral more powerful than uranium. When the volcano breaks the ocean's surface, nations will battle to control what is known as Vulcan's Forge - a source of limitless, clean, nuclear power.
-
-
foul language, returned the title
- De R. Frazier en 04-27-10
De: Jack Du Brul
-
Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- De: Ted Bell
- Narrado por: John Shea
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
-
-
Scam
- De Anonymous User en 10-10-18
De: Ted Bell
-
Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell
- De: Richard Marcinko, John Weisman
- Narrado por: Richard Marcinko
- Duración: 2 h y 32 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Richard Marcinko wrote his best-selling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell - a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself as the hero.
-
-
Good story, but...
- De StreetMedic en 06-11-11
De: Richard Marcinko, y otros
-
Spycatcher
- De: Matthew Dunn
- Narrado por: Rich Orlow
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Matthew Dunn spent years as an MI6 field operative working on some of the West’s most clandestine missions. He recruited and ran agents, planned and participated in special operations, and operated deep undercover throughout the world. In Spycatcher he draws on this fascinating experience to breathe urgent, dynamic new life into the contemporary spy novel. Featuring deft and daring superspy Will Cochrane, Dunn paints a nerve-jangling, bracingly authentic picture of today’s secret world. It is a place where trust is precious and betrayal is cheap....
-
-
Juvenile and just bad
- De R. L. Ketcham en 08-30-11
De: Matthew Dunn
-
Children of the Deterrent
- Halfhero, Book 1
- De: Ian W. Sainsbury
- Narrado por: Sam Phillips, Jaimi Barbakoff
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The new novel by the author of the best-selling The World Walker series. 'My name is Daniel Harbin, and I'm a child of The Deterrent.' What if a superhuman turned out not to be so super...or even human? Britain's superhero, The Deterrent, was unveiled to the world in 1979 and disappeared two years later. The truth about his origins has never been revealed. The rumours about his children - those that survived - and their mysterious abilities have never been confirmed. Until now....
-
-
Everything Backstory Until Last Few Chapters
- De Sailfish en 06-30-20
De: Ian W. Sainsbury
-
The Power of the Dog
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.
-
-
Gripping Drama
- De Deborah en 01-06-11
De: Don Winslow
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre After the Monsoon
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Mary
- 09-23-18
Slow going at first but good overall
It took me some time to key into narrator. At first it seemed deadly slow. But as the story opened up I found it compelling and satisfyingly.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 1 persona
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Hannimari
- 08-18-23
Excellent listen!
Start is a bit slow, but after that the plot starts to move with good pace. I was concerned that this book would be more made to the male audience with "action action action" but I was wrong. It is not just a simple cop story or just running with guns, rather strategical and exciting with plenty twists. There's only one thing that screams that this is a book written by a Swede and it's the phrase "Stockholm, the Scandinavian capital" which is heard so many times.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Richard Delman
- 08-18-18
Difficult book to review. Pulse-pounding? Not.
The publisher's blurb of this book makes it sound much more exciting and gripping (sorry) than it actually is. In spite of that, and probably because I just love the voice of David Colacci, I stayed with it and learned quite a bit about Sweden, Somalia and the other countries in the Horn of Africa, about which I knew virtually nothing before. I did know about the Somali pirates. They make a dramatic appearance in the beginning of the book, which is well-written. A ridiculously wealthy Swedish family has made the decision to drop out of the rat race, after making tons of money in the venture capital game. Karl-Adam worked for many years at Scandinavian Capital, a company in which the partners line their walls with multimillion-krone works of art. Karl-Adam was never a partner, but he still managed to compile a tidy fortune. He and his wife and kids appeared in many publicity shots at balls and yachting races and other enjoyments of the wealthy, and the publicity about these events turns out to be a horrible thing for them. Karl-Adam and Jenny have a daughter, Alexandra and a son, Sebastian. Sebastian suffers from epilepsy. The couple decide to take a trip around the continent of Africa and then, presumably, back up north to home in Sweden. In the process, though, they sail right through an area which they have been told to avoid, in no uncertain terms. This part of the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa is the lair of Somali pirates. The family is kidnapped in a violent struggle. They are then held as victims of a $10 million ransom demand. They are tortured, beaten, given exactly one bucket of water a day to address all of their water needs. We feel intensely sorry for them. They did nothing to deserve this, other than sail in an area of the ocean which is infested with human sharks. The attempt to rescue this family (I won't even try to spell their last name) is one of the two foci of Inspector Ernst Grip, a Swedish cop who is sent down by himself to solve the murder of a Swedish man on a firing range. The trip to the range is kind of a lark, thought up by a Swedish lieutenant who decides that it would be fun to take along some of the Somali men who help them at their small military installation. On the firing range the Swedish lieutenant gets murdered by one bullet in the head. Inspector Grip spends the rest of his time in the book trying to solve both of these very knotty problems. Much of the book concerns spy stuff that doesn't really hold my attention very well. It reads a good deal like John le Carre. Codes and lies and people in disguise and calls to upper management in Sweden who have no real idea of what is going on. I could have skipped a lot of this, and it would have, IMHO, helped increase the pace of the novel. The torture of the kidnapped family is described in small detail, and it is not fun to read. Not that it should be fun, but it could have been briefer. It is very fortunate that David Colacci narrates so well. I have listened to him read many books, almost the entire Abe Glitsky-Dismas Hardy series written by John Lescroart. Those books are some of my favorites, and Mr. Colacci bears a good deal of responsibility for that. In this book he voices many characters of both genders and a variety of ages, and you just do not hear a false note. There is a romantic-ish development near the halfway mark of the book between Insp. Grit and a woman named Iona, a half-black woman who plays piano in high-end hotels. She does some low-level spy work for Grit that becomes high-level work pretty quickly, just as the attraction between her and Grit develops. In the end, both crises get resolved, albeit with lots of drama and bloodshed and torture on our way there. Some of the torture is Byzantine, involving a bad guy being tied to the floor with ropes so that he can't stand or lie down, for days, until he melts into a puddle of animal excrescence. Pardon me. For the very squeamish, you might want to skip this part.
Anyway, the book is well-written and very well-narrated, and I am thinking about listening to another one in the series, if it is available. However, fourteen hours is a long time. The book could easily have been cut down to about nine hours, and it would have improved it immensely. An illustration of one of my favorite principles: addition by subtraction. If you think about this, it applies all over the place. Think of weeding a garden, or going into therapy and losing some bad habits, or cleaning the junk out of your house and finding that some open space is beautiful. Etcetera. I see it everywhere.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 7 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Richard J. Adamson
- 11-23-21
Lost 6 hours
After 6 hours I gave up.
Not going anywhere I could see. Wish I could have returned it for credit!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Chippie
- 08-28-23
Nope, not for me
I thought there'd be more action here, but as I slogged through a couple hours of this, I could see not much was going to happen soon and didn't want to wait 14 hours to find out what happens. I'm trying to return but can't find that option...
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña