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Narrated by:
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Arthur Morton
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By:
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Brian C. Baker
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The little girl had been shot. Her father held her outside the embassy gates as pursuing soldiers fired. Rounds cracked past us and the Marines beside me shouted and her father begged as she bled in his arms....
All the while, her eyes were on me.
What would you do?
Jackson Ford’s a disgraced former governor who recognizes a second chance when the president’s chief of staff dangles it.
The president needs an ambassador in a third-world nation. Someone to help local tyrants stamp out insurrection while keeping privation and violence out of the election-year news. Ford is a tough idealist, but this administration makes it clear that they don’t want idealism. They expect one thing.
Obedience.
When a rebel leader shows up outside the embassy gates with a wounded child in his arms and soldiers closing in, Ford can watch the girl bleed out or invoke the wrath of dictators and the president.
Ford’s decision to provide sanctuary puts the embassy under siege.
Ford and the US Marines are outmanned, outgunned, and outmaneuvered by an army outside their walls, even as they’re betrayed by enemies within. Ford doesn’t know if they’re defending the Alamo or Bastogne, but he does know they will not betray the ideals that should stir in the heart of anyone who sees the American flag aloft and under fire.
©2022 Brian Calvin Baker (P)2022 Brian Calvin BakerListeners also enjoyed...
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 353
Myke Cole is an expert at ratcheting up suspense and delivering pulse-pounding adventure that leaves audiences breathless. In Shadow Ops: Control Point, the world has seemingly gone mad. People are waking up with magical powers, such as the ability to raise the dead or call forth storms. The only thing staving off a plunge into chaos is the Supernatural Operations Corps, headed by Oscar Britton. But when Oscar exhibits a power of his own, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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2 out of 5 stars
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get on with it
- By Eugene on 05-15-12
By: Myke Cole
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Rogue
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 875
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 787
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Story4 out of 5 stars 786
Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations. Then one day, in the middle of an operation, with his team around him in the field, Monarch walked away, leaving his old life and friends behind without a word of explanation. Now this ex-soldier, ex-operative, and orphan with a murky past is a thief, stealing from the super-rich and has surfaced in St. Tropez.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must be a relative of Court Gentry
- By shelley on 02-13-14
By: Mark Sullivan
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Wild Justice
- By: Wilbur Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises antiterrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows that this is only the beginning of a nightmare. Stride is the one man who might find the twisted genius who holds the world hostage - if only his every move were not anticipated by the enemy....
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4 out of 5 stars
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more vivid descriptions and good story but unsatis
- By JDD on 05-27-19
By: Wilbur Smith
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Children of the Night
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: George Ralph
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 308
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Story4 out of 5 stars 306
In a desolate orphanage in what remains of post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion - and flourishes when he's supposed to die. The discovery of his unique immune system may hold the key to the long-awaited cure for cancer and AIDS - and a link to a clan of vampires.
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3 out of 5 stars
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needs a different reader
- By Kelly Howard on 09-12-08
By: Dan Simmons
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Relic
- Pendergast, Book 1
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12,884
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,461
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,483
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human.... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Non-Perishable
- By Snoodely on 05-26-10
By: Douglas Preston, and others
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The Watchers
- By: Jon Steele
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 21 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 403
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 348
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Story4 out of 5 stars 349
Beneath Lausanne Cathedral, in Switzerland, there is a secret buried before time began.... Marc Rochat watches over the city at night from the belfry of the cathedral. He lives in a world of shadows and "beforetimes" and imaginary beings. Katherine Taylor, call girl and daydreamer, is about to discover that her real-life fairy tale is too good to be true. Jay Harper, private detective, wakes up in a crummy hotel room with no memory. Three lives, one purpose: save what's left of paradise before all hell breaks loose.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Darker Than Anticipated.
- By Amanda on 06-02-12
By: Jon Steele
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The Shadow Tracer
- By: Meg Gardiner
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Sarah Keller is a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in Oklahoma. She’s also a skip tracer, an expert in tracking people who’ve gone on the lam to avoid arrest, prosecution, or debt - pinpointing their location to bring them to justice. When a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER, their quiet life explodes. Zoe’s medical tests reveal what Sarah has been hiding: Zoe is not her daughter. Zoe’s biological mother - Sarah’s sister, Beth - was murdered shortly after the child’s birth. And Zoe’s father is missing and presumed dead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story!
- By N on 04-12-22
By: Meg Gardiner
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Extinction Red Line
- The Extinction Cycle
- By: Tom Abrahams, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,678
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,561
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,554
For a dozen years, villagers along the ancient Da River in Vietnam have feared a nightmarish creature who hunts and consumes human flesh. Only in whispers do they mention its name, The White Ghost. To the United States military, this creature has a different name - Marine Lieutenant Trevor Brett, the chemically engineered experiment gone wrong that they will do anything to hide. Sole survivor of his platoon, Brett has stalked the jungle for prey. But the men who made him into a monster are searching for him, and when they find him, the line between hunter and hunted will be blurred.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Beginning!
- By Natalie @ ABookLoversLife on 01-14-19
By: Tom Abrahams, and others
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The Last Good Man
- By: Linda Nagata
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
Scarred by war, in pursuit of truth. Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot obsolete. Now she works at Requisite Operations, a private military company established by friend and former Special Ops soldier Lincoln Han. Robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence are all tools used to augment the skills of veteran warfighters-for-hire. But the tragedy of war is still measured in human casualties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Leaves you with something to think about
- By AQC Kelly on 10-19-17
By: Linda Nagata
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TimeRiders
- By: Alex Scarrow
- Narrated by: Aaron Landon
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
Maddy should have died in a plane crash. Liam should have died at sea when the Titanic sank. Sal should have died in a tragic fire. But a mysterious man whisked them away to safety. Maddy, Liam, and Sal quickly learn that time travel is no longer just a hope for the future; it is a dangerous reality. And they weren't just rescued from their terrible fates…they were recruited for the agency of TimeRiders created to protect the world from those seeking to alter the course of history for personal gain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Rather mundane story, not very scifi
- By DoctorMu on 01-24-16
By: Alex Scarrow
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Omega Days
- Omega Days, Book 1
- By: John L. Campbell
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Story4 out of 5 stars 175
Eight million walking dead stalk the San Francisco Bay Area, with more on the way. Scattered refugees - a priest with a bloody past, a college girl turned sniper, escaped San Quentin inmates and others - will quickly learn the three most important rules of survival: Make your bullets count. Don't fall behind. Don't...get...bitten! Fast-paced and packed with zombie action, Book One of the Omega Days series lights off the apocalypse with a scream, and tears California to pieces!
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By L on 06-19-14
By: John L. Campbell
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Terminator 3
- Rise of the Machines
- By: David Hagberg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 111
In the third installment of the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name, John Connor is older and is still a target for killer machines from the future. The human resistance sends back the Terminator who saved his life when he was just a boy to protect him from an even more lethal Terminator model: the Terminatrix - in the shape of a woman and capable of making all previous Terminators seem slow and stupid. If Connor doesn't survive, the future is lost...
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4 out of 5 stars
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All of what a movie can not offer
- By J. Locke on 08-10-03
By: David Hagberg
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Cruel World
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hart
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Hidden away from the world by his famous father, Quinn Kelly strives to find meaning in his life while struggling with a deformity that has kept him from leaving the only home he has ever known. On the eve of his departure a sudden and deadly virus sweeps across the nation, killing nearly all it touches. Within days Quinn is left to fend for himself in an empty world. But there is something still very much alive beyond the walls of his sanctuary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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BEST post apocalyptic story
- By melinda a rister on 10-02-21
By: Joe Hart
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2113
- Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush
- By: John McFetridge - editor, Kevin J. Anderson - editor
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in music history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, best-selling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song as the spark for a new story, drawing inspiration from the visionary trio Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm a RUSH fan, but ...no..not this book
- By NBP on 07-15-17
By: John McFetridge - editor, and others
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The Hidden Oasis
- By: Paul Sussman
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 96
Egypt 2153 BC: 80 priests set out under cover of darkness with a mysterious object.... Albania, 1986: A plane takes off bound for the Sudan. Somewhere over the Sahara it disappears.... The present: a mummified corpse is discovered in the dunes with a roll of camera film and a clay obelisk inscribed with a hieroglyphic sign.... Three unconnected events - or so it seems.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hot and Heavy in Egypt
- By Matthew on 05-10-10
By: Paul Sussman
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Without Warning
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 476
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4 out of 5 stars 330
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high energy wave cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico. In a moment, 99 percent of the U.S. population has been wiped from the face of the earth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Language in book is a bit over the top.
- By John R. Dritenbas on 07-07-10
By: John Birmingham