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Title: The Righteous Men

Author: Sam Bourne

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-06

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times reporter Will Monroe's investigation of a rash of seemingly random killings takes a dark and dangerous turn when his wife is kidnapped by shadowy enemies who want him to stop. Desperate to save his wife, Will follows the clues into the heart of New York's Hassidic community, and learns that the stakes of his quest are higher then he could ever imagine. As the death toll rises, he enlists an eccentric Kabbalah expert to decode his wife's captors' cryptic messages. The trail they pursue leads inexorably to a set of ancient texts and a prophecy that will save the world...or destroy all of life as we know it.

What will happen when the one secret that has kept the world safe for thousands of years is revealed to all? In The Righteous Men, a blistering, high-concept thriller filled with mystery, romance, and suspense, Sam Bourne takes listeners deep into the hidden worlds of fundamentalist religion, mysticism, and biblical prophecies, in a visionary tale as frightening as it is entertaining.

Critic Reviews:

"Bourne...has done his homework." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Interesting Story But Mostly Flat

This story is hailed as a successor to Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series. In addition the description starts with the murder of a teenage hacker in Mumbai. Unfortunately, this story does not live up to either of these two descriptions.

Indeed, the story does build upon ancient mysticism, in this case Hasidic mysticism rather than Christian mysticism of Dan Brown's books. And, indeed, a young hacker in Mumbai is one of the victims of the story - not the first or even a major part of the story. In short the book doesn't live up to the descriptions.

The story itself is quite dull in places. The reader is more than halfway through the book before the ancient mysticism at the focus of the story even begin to be revealed. The reader has to go even much further before the story is truly revealed. And while interesting it isn't much of a story. Perhaps this is why the author felt it necessary to drag out the story as he did.

Finally, the book is categorized as a thriller. Unfortunately, the book doesn't quite live up to this description either. Sure, there are some mysterious elements, however, they are not completely unpredictable. The author does indeed manage to weave a few surprise elements into the story. However, the two biggest elements did not really come as much of a surprise.

And then their is the story's climax. The defining part of every story. In short, this story's climax falls completely flat. In the best thrillers even the build up to the climax are difficult to put down - the climax itself is impossible. Not so for "The Righteous Men". In fact, I did have to put down the book once I had reached the climax - and I didn't think twice about it.

Good Concept, Modest Delivery

In many ways this Book was extremely interesting. All of the reality based situations and beliefs of Jewish mysticism made me want to finish the book. But there were times, especially at the beginning to the middle, that I was so bored I almost gave up on it and discarded the book to the electronic graveyard.