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  • Almost Criminal

  • A Novel
  • By: E.R. Brown
  • Narrated by: Brandon Massey
  • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Almost Criminal

By: E.R. Brown
Narrated by: Brandon Massey
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Publisher's summary

Charming, wealthy Randle Kennedy has a secret: he's British Columbia’s most prolific producer of boutique marijuana. He’s developed strains of B.C. Bud to please the most sophisticated palates and produce any desired effect, from a light contemplative buzz to the most mind-warping stone. His medical varieties offer relief for conditions ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease. Come legalization, he'll be the first on the market with marijuana's answer to single-malt Scotch.

Until that day, he runs a tight operation with terrorist-cell security.Tate MacLane is brilliant, miserable, and broke. Since graduating from high school at age 14, he's failed at university, failed to support his family, failed at everything except making a superb caffe latte.

Randle wants a fresh face to front his transactions. Tate desperately needs a mentor and yearns for respect. And money ...Then there are the bikers, the muscle with the cross-border connections that Randle needs to bring his product to the American market. Soon Tate finds out that it's harder to get out of the business than to get in.

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Crime novelist E. R. Brown takes you to the not-so-mean streets of Canada in this lively potboiler about a profitable marijuana-growing operation in suburban Vancouver. Almost Criminal thrives on the journalistic detail it brings to a suburban pocket of the Canadian drug industry, but the story really lights up when it pairs an ultra-successful grower of boutique marijuana with his smart but rudderless young protégé. Brown’s balancing of his gritty, offbeat thriller with an insightful coming-of-age drama makes this crime novel special. Narrator Brandon Massey brings clarity and a wry energy to his reading of Brown’s first novel.

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Horrible narrator!

I actually liked the story, but the narrator was just so monotone, it detracted from the wtory

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Couldn't stop listening - surprising

The plot is propulsive--it feels like being inside a news story, and the character study really got under my skin. I really liked this book. The narrator felt stiff at first, but I got used to it as the book went on. I listened at 1.4 x and it didn't feel rushed or stilted. I devoured the book in one sitting, and since finishing, I can't stop thinking about it. Looking forward to the author's next book.

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