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Title: Dead Head

Author: Allen Wyler

Narrator: Alfred Gingold

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

His daughter held hostage by terrorists, NIH neurosurgeon Russell Lawton is forced to assist terrorist in a plot to blow up the nation's capitol. He must find a way to stop them and save his daughter as the clock ticks toward detonation.

Editorial Reviews:

Brain surgeon Russell is confronted with an impossible choice. His eight-year-old daughter has been kidnapped by terrorists, and, unless he agrees to their demands, they plan to bury her alive. Russell must create a computer than uses brain activity to maneuver a robot, which the terrorists plan to use for their own violent purposes. Narrator Alfred Gingold's adrenaline-fueled performance is steeped in menace, and his relentless pace builds up to a riveting conclusion that will leave listeners gasping.

Members Reviews:

Unique and chilling medical thriller

The phrase spine tingling takes on a whole new meaning in Allen Wyler's latest thriller, Dead Head. Wyler's fast-paced story spans the country and thrusts NIH research neurosurgeon Russell Lawton into a desperate battle against time, terrorists and the Feds to save his young daughter, Angela. No less desperate is a cell of Middle Eastern extremists, who threaten to bury the child alive. The leader of the cell, a ruthless former battlefield surgeon, forces Russell to use his strictly theoretical research in brain-body synthesis in a frantic attempt to keep his gravely wounded comrade alive long enough to complete his deadly assignment.

Closing in from the other side is savvy FBI Special Agent Sandra Phillips. Brought into what appears to be a parental custody dispute between Russell and his former wife, the agent soon realizes that something much larger and far more sinister is going on.

In less skilled hands this chilling "what if" story could have easily fallen flat, but Wyler, himself a neurosurgeon, takes an utterly unfathomable concept and makes it completely feasible. As Russell fights to save his daughter, the reader is swept up in a nightmare scenario where medical boundaries and personal safety take a back seat to one man's courage and ingenuity.

Terrific read

The story had me not wanting to put the kindle down yet not wanting it to end. looking forward to more of the same!

Linda M.Grimwood. Highly recommended.

Hooked on this author now

A good read. Right up there with the other fun authors who write these books,....Woods, Patterson, etc.

I did not want to put it down.

Silly and careless errors crushed my interest.

I must admit, I am turned off to books that make factual errors and have fanciful contrived plot devices to set up situations. No argument about the medical issues; they seem plausible. At the very beginning, he is kidnapped at gunpoint and then the terrorists use their possession of his child to force him into doing something. In the process they shoot a policeman - needlessly. If they really wanted the doctor to get in the car, the woman 'interviewing' him could have explained that the child was being held captive and used that as an incentive rather than hold a gun on him on a busy street.

Second, as they drive away, the Dr. sees Castro Street and this brings back memories. Castro St is a memorable place but it doesn't come anywhere near the Moscone Center or Route 101 (which is actually called either Van Ness or Lombard, depending on where you are - and no one calls it Rt 101.)

Last, they drive over the bridge into Marin County and to an airport in Navato.