Spencerville

By: Nelson DeMille

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Back from the Cold War, intelligence officer Keith Landry returns to his hometown of Spencerville, Ohio. Twenty-five years after their last encounter, Keith runs into his first love, Annie, now unhappily married to the town's chief of police - an abusive alcoholic. In his efforts to reclaim Annie, Keith will have to draw on all the skills of a violent lifetime.

©1995 Nelson DeMille (P)2010 Hachette Audio

Great Book

I love Nelson Demille books. I almost did not buy this one based on the reviews I read. I took the plunge and loved it.

Good but long at the end

Good but long and the end really dragged out and had too much saddistic detail which seemed to go on and on.

Romantic Novel for the Man

If you could sum up Spencerville in three words, what would they be?

The Villian in this book - and those like him - should be coated in honey and staked out in the desert.

To many 'close calls' the ending drags

I listen to this book back in the mid 90's. First time for a DeMille novel. I remember think that the ending went on-and-on, with impossible scenarios. But I couldn't remember the details, have liked much of DeMille over the years so I bought it to listen again. A word of advise, if you chose to listen to this one, don't judge DeMille by this book. While he seems to have included every possible narrow escape and chance scenario (to the point you are just wishing for someone, anyone to die ad end it all) his future books are much better. Maybe this was an experiment of character development, slot to sub plots and of course chase scenes. DeMille learn that less is more, keep it simple and make the story believable. While the story needs to be exciting, when to far fetched (as it is here) you find yourself saying ... boy I couldn't see that coming (sarcasm)

I think if it was any other writer I have given up and returned it. Fortunately DeMille does a good job of telling the story and creating interesting people.

Overall, I gave it a 3 cause it is OK, the performance is good, the story is somewhere between a 2 & 3.

riveting

this book was amazing and the narrator was fantastic. the story just left you wanting more and I absolutely loved the ending!

Another Home Run by DeMille and Brick

Yet another great book/performance by Nelson DeMIlle and Scott Brick - my favorite audiobook duo. I had a number of issues with my book though, it kept freezing and repeating and refused to download later chapters. My device would say chapter xx was playing but it was really chapter xy. Took quite a bit of time and multiple re-downloads before I got through the whole thing.
A real pain in the butt but (ha ha) worth it.

Excellent story

One of his better stories. I recommend it to anyone who has enjoyed any of his other books.

Good

I enjoyed a lot listening to this book, however, SPOILER ALERT, the last part with Annie and Baxter in the mountains indicated a disproportionate Annie, as she was brave and almost killed him in the beginning and allowed him to drag her to hell towards the end. Also, Cliff's character was a bit exagerated and some parts of the book a little too long than needed, with explanations and dialogs.
The writer evolved a lot during the years and decades following this book release, I love many of his books, specially the John Corey series. I highly recommend Nelson DeMille.

He’s done it again. Another unique story filled with twists and turns and enough details to bring it all alive.

The book kept my interest throughout and was another of Mr. Demille’s unique story lines. While some of the dialogues seemed vaguely familiar, the book is refreshingly unique.

Detailed

if you have ever lived in the Midwest, you'll probably enjoy the level of detail in this book. it is narrated a little slow, so one might want to increase the reading speed.