Last Man Standing

Matt Standing Thrillers, Book 1

De: Stephen Leather

Narrado por: Paul Thornley

The next explosive stand-alone thriller from Sunday Times best-selling author Stephen Leather, featuring appearances from Dan 'Spider' Shepherd.

Friendships forged in the heat of combat can be stronger than anything.

So when SAS trooper Matt Standing is told that the former Navy SEAL who saved his life is in trouble, he doesn't hesitate to go to his aid - even if that means flying halfway around the world to Los Angeles.

Navy SEAL-turned-bodyguard Bobby-Ray Barnes has been accused of killing the man he was supposed to be protecting. Three other bodyguards were also killed, and now Bobby-Ray is on the run.

The dead client was a Russian oligarch with connections to the Kremlin. But who wanted him dead? And if Bobby-Ray wasn't the killer, who carried out the assassination, and why is Bobby-Ray being framed? Standing is the only man who can answer those questions - providing he can stay alive long enough.

©2019 Stephen Leather (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist." (Sunday Express)

"A master of the thriller genre." (Irish Times)

"As tough as British thriller writers get." (Irish Independent)

The pauses between sentences are excruciating.

Great characters, great plot and even a great narrator.
But the editing is painfully bad. Each sentence followed by a 2 second pause. Even when one character is interrupting another….there is a two second pause. Tough to build a riveting action scene, it’s hard to follow back and forth banter, it even ruins the tension building ironically enough.
Normally my gripe with narrators is when they try too many voices or stretch it to the cartoonish, the best use subtlety and consistency to build the different profiles. That’s exactly what this guy did perfectly. But they really screwed it up during the editing stage.
Having never been involved with this process, I imagine the guy reads a line or two in a couple different ways/styles, then they cut and paste the best ones together. Either by automation or on purpose they left a second on both sides of those. I say automation, because the consistency is amazing- amazingly frustrating.
Anyway, fix those gaps and re-release this one, because the story and storytelling is excellent.
And bonus - the new version should clock in 90 minutes shorter!

loved it

Had me hooked from the very start. They story line kept me interested from beginning to end. I look forward to seeing more of "Matt Standing"

Outstanding write!

Stephen Leather has a solid grasp of the nuances of the combat mindset and of ‘certain techniques’ that can only come from either having been there or having spent time with one who has.

This old warrior enjoyed the story!

A good book with a good plot !

I enjoyed this book, I've already completed book 2 now I'm on to book 3.