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  • Straight Shot

  • Tom Keeler, Book 1
  • By: Jack Lively
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (147 ratings)

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Straight Shot

By: Jack Lively
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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They thought they could get away with murder, but then Keeler showed up.

Ex-Special Forces operator Tom Keeler is a rambling man. He’s just passing through the town of Alencourt, France, and in less than an hour, someone tries to kill him. Nice place, nice try. But it’s a case of mistaken identity, and they picked the wrong guy. The French police can’t be trusted, except for the beautiful Cecile Nazari. She finds out fast that keeping up with Keeler is a dangerous occupation. Because someone’s preying on the weak and unprotected. Someone murderous. But they never counted on coming up against a guy like Keeler.

©2020 Jack Lively (P)2021 W F Howes
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Exactly what you’d expect. And that’s the fun

At first I found the staccato sentence a little too bland and unemotional. But I got used to it and found it enjoyable by the end.

The character is almost a 100% carbon copy of Jack Reacher. So if you’ve enjoyed Lee Child’s character you’ll enjoy this. But we all know what this - a kind of wall paper. A few steps up from Mills & Boon (or maybe just a certain kind of men’s Mills & Boon??).

I’ve been in hospital and in pain during this listen/read and it’s been a perfect antidote and antidepressant.

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Took a bit to get into

Took a bit to get into, but story ended up being great. French accent takes awhile to get used to.

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Wait for it

The story and the characters were old school Lee Child. The back half of the performance is worth the wait. However, the first part of the voice actor’s performance was horrible. The second book is worth the the listen as well.

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Good read

Not a bad story. I liked the main character and the twists the author threw in.

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Excellent!

If you like Jack Reacher, you will love this series. There are strange similarities, little nuggets, that will amuse a Jack Reacher fan. Overall, it was a great read, witty, gritty, with action in all the right places.

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Over and to much descriptions

I like that it followed the Jack Reacher pattern, I disliked the over descriptions they were used to fill pages

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Boring English Drawl of a Read

This is my kind of story, but the read was very hard to get through. Lady that I am dating could not take any more of it, stopping listening together. I forced myself to the end. But, good story.

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I have no idea if the hood was good

The narrator was so bad, I just couldn’t get I to the story. I removed the two books I had downloaded

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Reader's voice was not that good.

Readers voice was monotonous. story was OK but to much like Lee Child and Jack Reacher

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A Jack Reacher look-a-like

This reminds me so much of the first JR novel, "Killing Floor". There are many similar plot and character points. It's not bad, it just doesn't develop the characters as fully as Lee Child did. The narrator falls into a sing-song pattern occasionally; perhaps due to the short sentences and terse narrative of the book. He does well with the women's voices, and, not knowing otherwise, his French pronunciation sounded good to me.

And, really, you know, we can't have too many Jack Reacher-type books.

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