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Title: Dark Justice

Subtitle: Sean Dillon, Book 12

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history

It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon is on a trail that leads him to England, Russia and Iraq, where he prepares for the deadliest challenge of his life.

The Jack Higgins name is synonymous with action, pace and breath-taking suspense. He has sold over 250 Million copies of his novels and remains one of the world's best-selling writer's of thriller fiction.

Members Reviews:

fab

an old favourate to revisit for a sunny afternoon on holiday great hannah, sean & billy go at it hammer and tong

Dark Justice

Again, much to my disappointment the narrator, Kerry Shale, let the story down! A rattling good tale well written by Jack Higgins ~ PS Daimler is pronounced Dame -Ler

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Title: Bait

Author: Nick Brownlee

Narrator: Ben Onwukwe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-09

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The mangled body of a street criminal has been washed up on the beach and a fishing boat skipper and his bait boy have blown up in the water. When Jake and Jouma look closer, they discover that not only are the murders linked, but the conspiracy surrounding them stretches far beyond the reaches of Africa - and has deadly implications for everyone concerned...

Members Reviews:

Brownlee needs some wisdom.

The story takes place in Kenya. Starting off with a gruesome murder that must have been put in for shock effect, it is very difficult to reason it out. Even a psychopath would have a stretch to come up with such a bizarre thing. The murder is of a fishing boat owner whose daughter soon comes from the States to find out what happened. She has help from another fishing boat owner who is an ex-London policeman who with the help of the only honest local policeman in Kenya get into some dangerous situations. There is some gore, some sex, and somebeach. The book could have been fairly good if Brownlee hadn't used the name Jesus Christ for every emotional outburst in his text.

Bait

For nearly the first half of "Bait," the excellent debut novel by Nick Brownlee, apparently disconnected events transpire over a period of several days, in measured pace.

The mien of the patrician owner of the luxurious Marlin Bay Hotel, situated in the midst of squalor and stunning poverty in Kenya, is captured by the author perfectly and succinctly: "Getty paused in front of a wall mirror in order to smooth his augmented silver hair across his skull and liberally spray his tongue with peppermint breath-freshener." [His emotional distance from the lives of those who lived outside the protected walls of his compound, embroiled in a civil war that had to that point cost many lives, is perhaps best summed up by his reference to "a little local difficulty."]

Filled with brutality and actions fueled by - in equal parts - as stated by more than one player, stupidity and greed, together with pervasive corruption, the novel begins with the disappearance of Dennis Bentley, a white Kenyan who ran a game boat and had a reputation as "a loner and a cantankerous bastard," soon followed by the disappearance of George Malewe, described as a lowlife from Mombasa Old Town, whose young wife is convinced he has been slain. Things turn ugly when a body is washed up on the beach and Bentley and his bait boy are found to have been blown up in the water, in what may be connected events.

Twenty-nine-year-old ex-Scotland Yard cop Jake Moore is now six years later a game boat skipper, and is asked to assist Mombasa Detective Inspector Daniel Jouma of the Coast Province CID. Jouma, 51 years old and thirty-three years a serving police officer, is seemingly the only good cop on the force. He finds himself almost ludicrously defending his refusal to succumb to the corruption taken for granted by everyone else, and is told "Why? Because you are a policeman? Because you have sworn to uphold the law and protect the people? Don't think so highly of your vocation, Jouma. You saw what happened when they gave the people ballot boxes. Chaos. Anarchy. Death. They are animals and should be treated as such. No, Inspector, Kenya is about one thing and one thing alone: survival of the fittest. "

Set amid the five-star luxury and third world squalor of Kenya's east coast, the challenge to Moore and Jouma is clear.

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Title: The Peccavi File

Author: Howard E. Adkins

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-09

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The problem consists of a string of murders and the ongoing destruction of a number of companies' financial structures through implantation of highly malignant stealth computer viruses. The solution is hidden in the devilish Peccavi file.

©2000 Howard Adkins; (P)2009 Books In Motion

Members Reviews:

The Peccavi File

This book begins well and then, suddenly, becomes a grabber. Adkins continues to have the unique skill of being completely credible in the way he presents the dialogue between the book's characters -- both in their vocabulary and the emotions they are experiencing -- while simultaneously talking to the reader very intimately.

As the quite fascinating idea behind "Peccavi" begins to take hold, the reader is comfortably escorted through the increasing sophistication of the plot in tandem with the fun and quickly developing relationships that rapidly become complex, sensual, and

competitive. This makes the book a great page-turner.

This author causes the reader to become a learner while being entertained, through his ability to make a helix of the arcane around the mundane phenomenon of male/female and female/female relationships.

Lastly, it is evident that Adkins has done his homework both in science and forensics as well as the formal and informal structures of police work, which affords the reader believable and enjoyable insight. This book, coupled with his others, shows his laudable knowledge of an amazing cross section of subjects, and time periods, and aspects of the human condition.

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Title: The Predators

Author: Howard E. Adkins

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-09

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Charlie Buchanan, a young rancher in central Idaho, sets out to kill the newly introduced pack of wolves as his anti-government statement. The result is high adventure and endless misery for man and beast.

©2000 Howard E. Adkins; (P)2009 Books In Motion

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Title: Attack on the Queen

Author: Richard P. Henrick

Narrator: William Atherton

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Rescue may be impossible, but the alternative is unthinkable. A board the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth meet for the first time ever to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For ultra-nationalist Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of the Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal of monumental proportions. In ominous silence on the ocean floor, they have hijacked the nuclear submarine Lijiang and set a course to intercept the Queen in the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, another group of terrorists has infiltrated the ship, striking quickly and efficiently and gaining possession of the codes to China's awesome nuclear arsenal. In a terrifying instant, a small, deadly group of fanatics has taken control of the ship and summit. And now they hold the world and its leaders hostage. With the survival of the world's greatest leaders at stake, any misstep will mean the end of the delicate balance that passes for peace in our time.

©1998 Richard P. Henrick; (P)2009 Phoenix

Members Reviews:

Absurd premise, stock situations

This is a highly contrived story, scarcely believable in any of its major plot elements, which play out slowly and predictably right down to the bomb timer mere seconds away from zero.

Fiction usually requires some suspension of disbelief, but to buy this story you'd have to accept that the 8 most powerful world leaders would agree to spend a week together holding hands and farting daises for world peace. Next, they decide to convene this summit on an ocean liner, clearly vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks and mishaps.

Add to that: the US president is a kindly and brave leader but his peers from other countries are cowards. The security teams make stupid, obvious blunders so it is almost an anticlimax when the bad guys finally show up. Then there's the guy who has to get past his ancient fears to save the world, and the computer nerd forced to write software of a type he knows nothing about, in just a few minutes while held at gunpoint. Mix in a little mocking of un-American culture and you have a perfect stew of silliness.

In summary, there is almost nothing clever, creative, or credible about this story.

A marshmellow

ATTACK ON THE QUEEN is a light entertaining one-time-read action novel for a lazy afternoon. To read the whole thing in one afternoon requires skipping every other page, but fortunately, that in no way detracts from the experience. The Clancyesque details are annoyingly excessive, such as the fact that an ordinary, totally insignificant, sheet of typing paper measures 8 Â by 11 inches. Innumerable plot elements are highly improbable. I doubt that interior passageway walls within the QE2 are concrete. The descriptions of macho military types being seasick on the QE2 in calm weather is completely unnecessary to the plot, and is ludicrous. Parachuting an individual soldier onto the QE2, while the ship is making 25 knots, at night, in bad weather, in the middle of the North Atlantic, against a hostile force is absurd---especially when there is already a free agent on board, in radio contact with the authorities, who is perfectly capable of the proposed mission (and in fact, ultimately accomplishes the mission).

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Title: Benin Light

Subtitle: A Richard Mariner Adventure

Author: Peter Tonkin

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-09

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The lighthouse is the marker for Granville Harbour, wild and inaccessible on the western coast of Africa. After an unfriendly exchange with the harbour master, Richard decides it is time to sort it out. His wife, Robin, organises one of the hotel's helicopters to pick him up, but when they are above the harbour bullets strike the side of the helicopter.

The city is a place of poverty and corruption, but the couple are still shocked to see the Russian ex-militia man, Sergeant Voroshilov. And when armed guards arrive at the hotel to arrest Richard, trouble really begins...

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Title: Without Prejudice

Author: Andrew Rosenheim

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-09

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Robert has recently returned to his native city of Chicago to make a fresh start - but Duval is from a childhood Robert would rather forget. Robert reluctantly agrees to meet him, and is astonished to find he is proclaiming his innocence.

When Robert's wife Anna, a lawyer, takes up Duval's cause, Robert is reluctant to encourage her. Then just as Anna's investigations into the rape case start to make progress, Duval disappears.

Critic Reviews:

"This intelligent and well-crafted potboiler sheds light on a subject that goes beyond black and white." (Independent)

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Title: Bloody Boston

Subtitle: The Penetrator Series, Book 12

Author: Chet Cunningham

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-09

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

No one knows who the Penetrator is or where he lives, expect for two men. But the police blotters of cities across the nation and even as far away as Japan contain evidence of Mark Hardin's handiwork - the death of corrupt hogs at the public table, deaths of men who killed, maimed, and caused suffering among the innocent. The Penetrator is a warrior without uniform or rank, pledged to fight anyone - on either side of the law - who seeks to destroy the American way of life.

Follow the Penetrator as he travels from place to place, leaving his personal symbol of retribution, a chipped blue flint arrowhead, on the bodies of society's deadliest enemies.

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Title: Unpretty

Author: Sharon Carter Rogers

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In Unpretty - by National Best Book Award finalist Sharon Carter Rogers - a powerful blast rips through a West Virginia art gallery. Although Hummingbird Collins can identify the bomber, she's frightened into silence by chilling messages from a deranged cult member calling himself Number 26. But when she goes missing, an unlikely young man may be the only one who can help her.

©2008 Sharon Carter Rogers Enterprises; (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic Reviews:

"A gripping, fascinating tale ... that keeps you guessing." (Nancy Moser)

Members Reviews:

This Last Judgement Against All Things Unpretty

What do you know about Renaissance art? Narrowing down, how about Michelangelo Buonarroti? Don't know? Well, this book was educationally informal about this particular artist, most especially about the history behind one of his most regarded paintings, The Last Judgement.

Add the history of that (then) controversial painting with fictional cult basing its view of anything pretty on that one painting and willing to destroy anything and anyone that doesn't stand up to it, and you can imagine how tense this book can be.

As with her debut novel, Sharon Rogers creates very unique characters, each with their own entirely unique style and characteristics (rather than stagnant repeats of each other with slight differences other than name) that add to the overall mystery, and though not all get the same amount of page time, they do get their appropriate amount so as to not be overbearing nor underbearing (okay, I take that back, I would've loved to read more about that one particular hacker...), as well as the secret organizations mentioned (none real, but all interesting enough).

While most of the book got cleared up, there are a few things I wish got cleared up, rather than be used as red herrings. Nonetheless, this was a pretty solid sophomore novel.

Great Story

I am new to this author and was wonderfully amazed by the depth this book had. There are plot twists and great depth to character development. It is not a book to take up as a "quick read", but better as one to take time with in order to enjoy the nuances of the characters.

The only thing I can think of that I didn't like about the book was the character name "Hummingbird". However, the story is plenty riveting for that detail to be quickly overlooked.

I recommend this book to those who love a great story and talking about that story with others. I feel it would be great for a book club. There are enough exhilarating details in this book to give a book club plenty to talk about.

Another great story from Sharon Carter Rogers!

I loved Sharon's first book, Sinner, and couldn't wait to dive into Unpretty. She didn't disappoint.

Once again, I found Sharon's characters engaging. I liked that I could tie two of the characters back to Sinner and that Galway is mentioned! That being said, you don't have to know anything about the characters from Sinner to enjoy Unpretty. The two stories really don't have anything to do with one another in terms of plot.

I expected Unpretty to be a similar type of story as Sinner, a supernatural thriller. I was wrong. Unpretty is very much in the real world without the supernatural element.

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Title: Blown Away

Author: G.M. Ford

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-09

Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Bestselling author Frank Corso is at first reluctant to investigate a four-year-old unsolved murder. Then he endures two attacks on his life and his curiosity is quickly sharpened. Clearly someone still has something to hide.

©2006 G.M Ford; (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Members Reviews:

Did not see that coming

Have really enjoyed this series of books, great main character and excellent story lines, but did not see the end of this book coming in a million years. Thought his Leo Waterman books were great and these are of the same standard if not even better. Would recommend this autor.