Book of Secrets

By: Chris Roberson

Narrated by: Peter Brooke

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. Finch gradually uncovers a mystery involving secret societies, generations of masked vigilantes - and an entire hidden history of mankind.

Chris Roberson is obsessed with superhero comics, pulp fiction, puppetry, animation, history, and science, and has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Liberal Arts Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, 1992. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times—twice for publishing, and once each for writing and editing—twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and three times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”). He lives in Austin, Texas.

©2010 Chris Roberson (P)2014 Audible Ltd

CONFUSING,SLOW START/ HILARIOUS / GREAT ENDING

This book was hard to get into, I didn't get it.
Not a lot to like about the chain-smoking, heavy drinking, flawed character.
But I stuck with it and was rewarded by such hilarious scenes, tears ran down my face. Like the old Andy Griffith stand-up
where he explained the game of football and the opera, Carmen. one of the funniest bits in stand-up ever.

An absolutely brilliant twist on theology at the end -- Things that make you go HMMM!
The guy might redeem himself in the end, and if he ditches the booze and cigs, you might actually come to like him.
I would read a sequel. I'm going to buy one of Roberson's books. Peter Brook was a convincing almost- hero.
Very glad I stuck with it.
I've read many forgettable books this year. This is a book I won't forget!

horrible book wish I had never listened to it

I struggle to listen to it wanted to call I never quit listening to a book this is the first one I thought about doing in a long time. don't waste your time

Rating < 0

I tried, really tried to finish this book. Then decided I don't have another hour and two minutes to waste. Horrible voices, but I think that might have been a nod to the pulp fiction genre. I don't really like pulp fiction, but this wasn't even good pulp fiction.