False Profit

Hard Luck Hank, Book 11

By: Steven Campbell

Narrated by: Liam Owen

Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

The economy has taken a turn for the worse, and Hank is working as a part-time gravedigger (and more than part-time graverobber). Despite being an expert shoveler, it’s not his top career choice, and he’s anxious to take any "legitimate" criminal work that comes along.

In that vein, he finds himself hired by a mysterious woman who wants him to recover an even more mysterious trunk that was stolen from her mansion. He’s also tasked by the new Adjunct Overwatch to find out who has been tampering with the Upper City. Hank struggles against competitive rivals, government red tape, serial killers, and his ever-present grumbling stomach.

All of this takes place with the backdrop of the Thad Elon Festival. It was put on as a means to drum up tourism revenue for the city. But there’s a concern that the destructive demigod in question might show up in person to take part in the celebration.

©2023 Steven Campbell (P)2024 Steven Campbell

Great series but repeating lines really killed it.

I wish they would take this book and edit it to remove the double takes. So many hilarious scenes are wrecked by them. Other then that, I really enjoyed the book and voice acting.

Needs editing

The editing was atrocious, it contained dozens of repeated lines. Other than that,It was a regular Hank book, nothing too exciting.

typical hank story but the editor should be shot

if you liked previous books your going to like this one.
only thing is there are numerous times the audio repeats itself like they did 2 takes and left them both in. It is awful and the audio editor should feel awful.

Great Story/Poor editing job

As many have said, there are editing errors throughout. More than a hundred, I would guess. Not the end of the world, but it should have already been fixed in this day and age.

needs editing

no one at the publisher has listened to this book all the way through.

needs editing. Narrator repeats himself a distracting amount of times

Poor recording on a great story

The story is really good, but the recording repeats itself all the time. It’s like they left in all the second takes for lines. It’s very frustrating and takes you out of the story when the narrator repeats lines with them stated slightly differently.

Another good one

Love all of the books in the series. The narrator is great. The story is fun. I just wish the editor would lay off the bong hits and catch the repeated lines.

Great story, terrible editor.

The author and the reader are amazing, as always! However, this is not a properly edited file, and there are many, many reader errors that should have been edited out. The lack of proper editing the tracks significantly from this audiobook. It’s really quite disappointing that such a good book and such a good performance was ruined by an editor’s indifference to a finished product.

kind of disappointed

this is the second time I had to to do a double take on listening to a book this book for my machine I guess. don't know what's going on but every once in a while the track will double-back, repeating the last few words, then continue on with the track.

I still continue to appreciate Hank, but would be better without the constant rewinds. it disrupts the flow of the story

This is a draft version of the audiobook

This audiobook is full of narrator double-takes that haven’t been edited-out. They aren’t repeats, each version has a different intonation, and the audiobook is otherwise produced. Someone was probably supposed to go-through the final draft and select the takes that sounded better, and they didn’t do that. They uploaded this copy to Audible instead. Also, I own every audiobook in this series and am a huge fan of the series and narrator. This is purely a production error. There are at least ten double-takes per chapter.