Ash

Asher Benson Book 1

By: Jason Brant

Narrated by: Wayne June

9 AM EST: A senator shoots himself on national television.

10:32 AM EST: An entire floor of government agents leap to their death from their office building.

12:57 PM EST: All the police officers inside a station murder each other.

And the day has just begun.

Lieutenant Asher Benson left Iraq with a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and a Purple Heart. His doctors warned that the symptoms would be life altering. They had no idea. As his body healed, the thoughts of those around him began to echo through Ash's mind, stretching the boundaries of his sanity.

Five years later, Ash is drowning the voices with copious amounts of booze and self-loathing.

When unidentified intelligence agents abduct him in broad daylight, Ash is thrust into a world of espionage and assassinations. A unique terrorist is operating on U.S. soil, and the government needs Ash, and the malady that has plagued him for half a decade, to find the killer.

©2014 Jason Brant (P)2015 Jason Brant

Asher

Loved the story. Bought in Audible and Amazon. In search of book two. The humor reminds me of Nelson Demille's Agent John Corey.

Mostly liked it

The narrator was very good. The premise and writing were both good.
The music at the beginning and between chapters was not only distracting and annoying, but felt insulting somehow. I hope this is not a trend in ebooks. It will send me back to reading only.

Ordered by Mistake

Best mistake I’ve ever made. I almost immediately got caught up in the writer’s skill and enjoyed this often gruesome story. Not at all what I would usually read, but it’s based on fictional skills. It’s entertaining. I intend to try book 2.

I agree with others who disliked the brief musical interludes between chapters. They are distracting, and I was eager to continue reading.

Uninteresting

The beginning of the book didn't hook me and it was not what I expected.

good book

great charters, The story was wonderful, fast pasted ! The narrative was grear, This is my first Audible book. . it was a lot different than I expected, but I like it a bunch!!!!

some hokey dialogue but good plot

Wayne June is awesome. He alone is worth buying the audio book. Brant needs to cut down the canned discourse though.

Thrilling and Violent

Definitely a fast-moving and exciting story but it is a little too full of vulgarity and violence for my taste. The author does a great job of eliciting sympathy from the reader for the main character due to what he's gone through. The performance is pretty good as well but the music and sound effects actually detract from the narration.

This was a pretty good book

This is a pretty good book. It keeps you engaged in such a far out storyline that you want more!! Great characters, Good plot, and an ending that that lets you know there is more of the same excitement to come in the next book. The one thing I really hated...ok, it just annoyed the crap out of me is the music in between chapters...MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

Ash

This started out as a bleh first person stuck in the muck kind of tale, but the longer I read it, the more I appreciated the humor and really wanted to see where the story went. Decent start to a series, looking forward to finishing it.

ever seen that scene in scanners?

this book was really fun to listen to however, this story was told in the 80's cult classic Scanners. that being said some of the suprises of this story where not there due to being familiar with the film. i do enjoy this author and plan on looking into more of his work.