Favorite Sons

A Novel

De: Robin Yocum

Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur

A riveting novel in which old friends must excavate the formative event of their childhood - a murder - and determine how to pit truth against justice.

Hutch Van Buren is 15 years old, playing sports and searching for arrowheads in a small industrial town in Ohio with his three closest friends when an altercation between the comrades and Petey Sanchez, a troubled 17-year-old, leads to Petey’s accidental death. Together, Hutch and his friends become ensnared in a web of secrets and moral dilemmas. A local ne’er-do-well goes to jail for the crime while the boys keep their pact of silence. Each boy shoulders the burden of truth in his own way as each attempts to leave the past behind.

Thirty-three years later, in 2004, Van Buren is the prosecuting attorney in Summit County, Ohio, and a candidate for state attorney general when he learns that he and his boyhood friends weren’t the only ones keeping a secret about Petey’s death. A convicted sex offender in need of a favor attempts to blackmail Van Buren in return for his silence. Van Buren must decide between his political career and the duty of the office he has sworn to uphold. With the clock ticking, Van Buren has a week to seek out his boyhood friends and search his soul while he sorts out three decades of deceit he helped create. Favorite Sons is a wonderful, suspenseful novel with nuanced, memorable characters and unpredictable plot twists.

©2011 Robin Yocum (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“It’s rare to find a book that doesn’t fail on some level, but this is one I read without a hint of disappointment.” (Bookpleasures.com)

“This is a seething mass of moral turpitude, opportunistic extortion and endemic corruption. What a tasty debut novel it is.” ( Dayton Daily News)

“Favorite Sons keeps the reader turning pages with its twisted plot and characters facing high stakes.” ( Columbus Dispatch)

A Great Book

I enjoyed every word of this book. Well written and a great story. I highly recommend this book.

Gripping story

Narrator was the perfect person for this book. I felt like he was the main character. Bravo!

Fantastic

I have listened to hundreds of audible books. Rarely do I leave a review. Just do four or five star rating usually and done with it. This was a fantastic story and narration. I’m already searching this author for more of his books. All around fantastic story! One you will never forget!

Worth the Listen

It's not the best book I've read but it is worth the listen, especially because it's free.
the story its self is kind of up and down. there are a few long drug out sections of exposition that seem to be used as filler. The "Mystery" if you could call it that wasnt overly engaging but it was enough that you want to finish the story.

Great story

I'm liking this author. I listened to this book first. Then The Essay. both very good especially The Essay. There are some one credit books from this author I may try later.

The best best so far this year!

This is a remarkable novel about friendship. it's about politics, murder, childhood sexual violence. It's like nothing I've read before. Every character, even minor ones, are well thought out. The plot is realistic and a tragedy. Narration is excellent. I wept and I don't cry.

Closeness of childhood friendships.Decent story

Decent story told well. Even with a polygraph the story was not believable. All he had to do was arrest him and then anything the guy said against him would be tainted.

Outstanding !

great thought provoking novel. this book is well written and well edited. I highly recommend this book.

Great ending!!!

Excellent with engaging details! Wonderful narration! Very entertaining. Easy to follow and leaving the listener to hear more!!!

One of the best mysteries I’ve listen to in years

The plot was believable, the characters were beautifully developed and easy to understand and believe, and production was first rate. I really was spellbound. I was sorry when the book ended.