The Headlock of Destiny
An Epic Fantasy/Pro Wrestling Mash-up (Titan Wars, Book 1)
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Narrated by:
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Sean Slater
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By:
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Samuel Gately
About this listen
Some say titans are descended from giants. Others say they are risen from men. But there’s never any debate about where to find them. They will be in the center of a roaring crowd, beating the hell out of each other.
From contenders like the Savage and Scott Flawless to pretenders like Richard the Living Portrait and Troll-Blooded Thom, a titan’s lot in life is the same: to wrestle for dominion and glory in the squared circle.
Van, a quiet titan from the brewery town of Headwaters, wants no part in this. He’d prefer to be left alone with a beer. But destiny has him in a headlock, and it is prepared to drag him into battles that will shake the land and change his world forever.
Step into the ring with this one-of-a-kind novel, brewed special for fans of epic fantasy, fans of professional wrestling from the Golden Era and beyond, or simply fans of a good tale. Narrated by Sean Slater.
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Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops...and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir and fantasy walk into a bar...
- By Reviews by L on 12-16-15
By: Daniel Polansky
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Dawn of Chaos
- Age of Madness - A Kurtherian Gambit Series
- By: Daniel Willcocks, Michael Anderle
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Caitlin finally gets the chance to explore what's outside of the walls of the town she's been trapped in and finds vampires, werewolves, and zombie-like creatures.
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1 out of 5 stars
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disappointed
- By me.. on 01-10-23
By: Daniel Willcocks, and others
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The Good Luck Girls
- By: Charlotte Nicole Davis
- Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls - they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally murders a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Was Pretty Good!
- By Millie Mi on 03-18-21
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Hellboy: Odd Jobs
- By: Christopher Golden
- Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In 1994, Mike Mignola created one of the most unique and visually arresting comics series to ever see print: Hellboy. Tens of thousands have followed the exploits of the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator in comics form and in prose. Now, fans of the comic can enjoy the world of Hellboy as seen through the eyes of some of the brightest creative lights in horror and mystery fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extra stories for true fans
- By Daniel Wiffen on 07-24-21
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Herokiller
- A Novel
- By: Paul Tassi
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Mysterious billionaire Cameron Crayton is a household name from televised spectacles in which prison inmates fight to the death, but his old shows pale in comparison to his new event, The Crucible, a gladiatorial tournament anyone can enter. The winner is promised unimaginable wealth and glory...if they’re able to survive a series of globally broadcast fight-to-the-death matches with medieval weaponry against the world’s most fearsome fighters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great storyline
- By Sarah Benn on 12-20-23
By: Paul Tassi
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Fractured Souls
- By: E. A. Copen
- Narrated by: Matt Cowlrick, Erin DeWard
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Rogue wizard Josiah Quinn never met a rule he wouldn’t break. Even though he knows he’ll face plenty of backlash from both good and evil, he braves the fires of Hell to spring Satan’s captive daughter. But before they return to their lives, he’s got to track down the missing pieces of her soul.... As he attempts to unite the fragmented spirit of the succubus by his side, Josiah has one little problem: a power-hungry wizard aiming to rule the underworld.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It grew on me - and I'm not done with this series
- By JEN on 06-30-20
By: E. A. Copen
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Worldship: Udo the Digger
- Worldship, Book 1
- By: Joshua Gayou
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,027
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026
Udo's biggest problem isn't being a digger (that's low class), or staying drunk (that's damn expensive), or avoiding the Dwergaz (they're monsters), or even pissing off the supposed Gods. It's that his reality...well, it isn't what he thought. And now, he can't even afford to drink because his so-called friend Nicz is cutting into his business, digging up tin, iron, and copper. So Udo forms a new plan: clay. After all, clay jars are used to store everything: meat, herbs, and, his personal favorite, ale.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I am confused.
- By Ahkia on 06-02-20
By: Joshua Gayou
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Three
- Legends of the Duskwalker, Book 1
- By: Jay Posey
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,494
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,319
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,320
The world has collapsed, and there are no heroes any more.His name is Three, a travelling gun for hire in a dying world. He has no allegiances, no family, no ties.Against his better judgment, he accepts the mantle of protector to a sick woman on the run, and her young son. Together they set out across the plains in search of a mythic oasis, attempting to survive the forces that pursue them, and the creatures of the dark.In these dark times, a hero may yet arise.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Post apocalyptic lone wolf takes woman & child
- By JPaladin on 12-21-13
By: Jay Posey
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The Nate Temple Series: Books 0-3
- The Nate Temple Series Boxset Book 1
- By: Shayne Silvers
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 41 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 998
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 904
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 899
My name is Nate Temple, and I’m secretly a wizard. I ride a foul-mouthed unicorn, I drink with Achilles, and I’m pals with the Four Horsemen. I’ve even cow-tipped the Minotaur. I understand the theory of following the rules...I’m just not very good at the application. Because rules were meant to be broken, and St. Louis has a bit of a supernatural infestation these days. Someone should probably be keeping an eye on these things -and probably an eye on me, too. Before I blow up another building...or three.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Basically Batman with lizard brain
- By Ross Hageman on 04-01-20
By: Shayne Silvers
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The Pilo Family Circus
- By: Will Elliott
- Narrated by: Mark Stephens
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4 out of 5 stars 93
"You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You’re joining the circus. Ain’t that the best news you ever got?" Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind’s greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place - peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous - where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining but unremarkable bit of the lmacabre
- By David on 05-31-14
By: Will Elliott
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Heart of Stone
- The Negotiator Trilogy, Book 1
- By: C. E. Murphy
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,127
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 645
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Story4 out of 5 stars 641
Okay, so jogging through Central Park after midnight wasn't a bright idea. But Margrit Knight never thought she'd encounter a dark new world filled with magical beings, not to mention a dying woman and a mysterious stranger with blood on his hands. Her logical, lawyer instincts told her it couldn't all be real, but she could hardly deny what she'd seen...and touched.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her best by far
- By Amazon Customer on 11-08-07
By: C. E. Murphy
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Good Intentions
- By: Elliott Kay
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,163
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,823
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,823
He knew it was a dumb stunt from the start. A midnight run through a cemetery to impress a couple of girls isn't the stuff of legend, but Alex Carlisle longs to escape the crushing mediocrity of life after high school. Then, he stumbles upon the ritual, the cultists, and two bound and bloodied women. Alex intervenes, and the ritual blows up in his face, leaving him bound to them both: Rachel and Lorelei, an angel and a succubus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read the Warning Label!
- By C. Williams on 08-31-15
By: Elliott Kay
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The Rebel of Raleigh High
- Raleigh Rebels Series, Book 1
- By: Callie Hart
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Charlotte North
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 862
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 781
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 779
Hit me. Kick me. Hurt me. Hate me. There’s nothing that the students of Raleigh High can do to Silver Parisi anymore. Over the past year, she’s had to endure more pain and suffering than most people are asked to bear in their lifetimes. She’s a pariah, an outcast, a ghost. She’s also never been one to take shit lying down, though...despite what half the football team might say. With only 168 days left of the school year, it won’t be long until graduation, and Silver’s planning on skipping town and leaving Raleigh firmly in her rearview mirror. Until he comes along....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a YA only! Do NOT blow this off!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-29-20
By: Callie Hart
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Wolves
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,884
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,689
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,682
Ten years after the collapse, Huxley has built a good life again. He has a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers come. Working out in the fields during the attack, Huxley returns too late. His daughter has been taken, and his wife is bleeding out, her last whispered words about a man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck. Where do the slavers go? Huxley has no idea. He knows only that they head east, and so will he, setting out on foot across the desert of the Wastelands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant. I do have one criticism.
- By Billy on 09-04-16
By: D. J. Molles
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Big Trouble
- Small Medium, Book 1
- By: Andrew Seiple
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 483
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 435
Chase Berrymore dreams of adventure, excitement, and getting the heck out of her pastoral halven village. But when adventure finds her, she'll be scrambling to save her family and friends from a necromancer's wrath. Outmatched in almost every way, she'll have to use her wits, charisma, and a bit of divine favor to figure out the path to victory. Even worse, she'll have to figure out ways to deal with the weird and nigh-immortal beings that call themselves "playas"...and she'll have to do it with the most powerful weapon she has available: words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great continuation of threadbear-verse
- By Randall on 08-17-19
By: Andrew Seiple
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Storm Front
- The Dresden Files, Book 1
- By: Jim Butcher
- Narrated by: James Marsters
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56,063
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49,009
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48,927
A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt. Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Story, Distracting Sound Engineering
- By Tom on 05-20-10
By: Jim Butcher
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- 07-27-21
Best audiobook I've listened to in awhile
the characters - love em
the story - left me hooked and wanting more
the voicework - phenomenal
Highly recommend it if you like things like Kings of the Wyld, Orconomics or The Grey Bastards.
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Fantasy and Pro-Wrestling Finally Collide
The unfortunate truth of being a wrestling fan is that we just don’t get good fiction when it comes to any medium outside of the shows themselves. We get memoirs, we get autobiographies, we get shoot interviews, but we don’t get novels, short stories, or anything that could even be mistaken as quality literature. It’s something we’ve come to understand and begrudgingly accept over time. Samuel Gately sought to change this when he authored Headlock of Destiny and he did exactly what he aimed to do. As incompatible as fantasy and professional wrestling seem to be on the surface, Gately pieces together a novel that is equal parts fun and engaging while slyly penning a love letter to the squared circle. This book is just as fun of an adventure if you’re not a wrestling fan but if you are a wrestling fan, there are easter eggs galore to feast upon that reference the manly soap opera that we’ve grown to love. I would recommend this to anybody that wants a break from the typical formulaic fantasy novel and I would double recommend it to fans of the greatest spectacle on earth, Pro-wrestling.
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