The Others

By: Jeremy Robinson

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

• Number one Audible.com Best Seller
• Winner: Independent Audiobook Award for Best Science Fiction - 2019
• Winner: Voice Arts Award for Best Science Fiction - 2019

To save a missing girl...

Dan Delgado is a private investigator. When it comes to finding cheating spouses, corporate thieves, or runaway teenagers, he’s unenthusiastic, and unmatched. As a former San Francisco detective, he misses more meaningful work, but he hasn’t had the heart for it since his wife’s death five years prior. That is, until a phone call from a distraught mother, an illegal immigrant who can’t go to the police, puts him on the hunt for a missing little girl.

By the time he reaches the mother’s small home, she’s missing, too. The circumstances are strange, but when a team of heavily armed mercenaries arrive, Delgado is convinced there is more going on than a simple kidnapping.

Joined by his wise-cracking elderly assistant, a gun-toting pastor, and a UFO enthusiast Uber driver, Delgado follows the clues west, to Colorado City, a town cleaved in two by the 37th parallel, also known as the UFO Highway. In a town infamous for fundamentalist Mormon cult activity, they uncover evidence of a massive child-trafficking ring whose ringleaders might not be human.

Delgado and crew are plunged into a dangerous world of corporate competition, UFO lore, and government cover-ups. While they hunt for answers, they’re pursued across the Southwest by high-tech mercs, brainwashed cults, and beings whose true identity has been concealed since 1947.

...he must risk the world.

UFOs and alien abductions remain some of the most hotly debated and mysterious subjects of the 21st century. In the decades since 1960, with reports of strange encounters on the rise, 13 million people have gone missing worldwide and never been found. The Others takes a fast-paced, unique, and moving look at the phenomenon that has fueled Jeremy Robinson’s imagination since several sightings, strange happenings, and visits with renowned UFO investigator and family friend Raymond Fowler.

©2018 Jeremy Robinson (P)2018 Jeremy Robinson

The Others Didn’t Disappoint

My favorite sci-fi books are the ones that seem believable, those that are based on a premise (like aliens). Books that seems a bit out there but are so well done you occasionally forget that you’re reading fiction. They’re so unsettling that you get a bit nervous. Jeremy Robinson’s novel The Others is one of those books.

The Others combines all of the things that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a bit with a unique take on alien origins, a pinch of corruption, great imagery detailing the landscape of the southwest, and a number of honorable people determined to find answers and protect the ones they care about most in this world.

Robinson drew me in right away with his characterization of private investigator Dan Delgado and his elderly (yet feisty) longtime assistant Wini. Both characters are immediately likable. They are fiercely loyal to each other and have secrets that create some intrigue, a trend that continues throughout the book as additional characters are introduced.

The Others opens with an apparent abduction that felt different from a stereotypical alien abduction and had me wondering if I was being duped. Was it a parental kidnapping, trafficking, or something otherworldly? What was the motive? Where is the child? The answers to these questions come slowly as the story progresses, with a thickening plot and building mystery.

RC Bray’s narration was as I’ve come to expect from him–spot on. His tone and pace paired well with the book’s first-person narrative and was a great fit for The Others’ protagonist, Dan.

If you’re searching for a story about short (or extremely tall), grey extraterrestrials with disproportionately large heads, huge black eyes, and flying saucers, this book is not for you. If you’re interested in a fresh take on aliens, with a healthy dose of conspiracy, a trafficking ring with connections to a fundamentalist cult, and some unlikely do-gooders to cheer on (along with your obvious hero, the private investigator), take a listen, I don’t think The Others will disappoint.

Exciting

The audio was Exciting & fast paced with a believable ending.
I would recommend this audio to those who like action !

confused

granted I'm listening to this book while working but I've listened to hundreds of books over the years while working. It doesn't make sense and im lost. I'll give it a break and try again later May be I'm missing something

Couldn't stop listening

The story quickly gets into the mystery and doesn't stop. Don't bother trying to find a good place to pause and just accept that you aren't getting any sleep until the story ends. As always, RC Brey brings a great story to life. Amazing performance

WOW!

The Others is a rollercoaster ride from start to finish. In parts hysterically funny, in others terrifying. A cast of amazing characters fighting against overwhelming odds and by the end you'll wish you were fighting alongside with them! I've been reading Jeremy's books for a while now and I have known how creative he is, how clever his writing can be, but he has excelled himself this time.

This has all of his classic traits. Uncompromising humour, instantly relatable characters, subtle pop culture references and an ability to sculpt a vivid narrative which grips the reader like they are playing out a movie.

Brilliant. Just, brilliant.

Strange ending

I enjoyed how the story was building to what could have been a great ending.
The Other turned out to be a totally unbelievable creature of strange body parts.

It would have been so much more believable to have been this Ethereal Personage that gave up its corporal human form to survive a catastrophic Earth ending event, the Others are trying to recreate a physical vessel to become a physical personage again.

Makes it believable on the Joseph Smith and Moroni visitation.
The need for donors and small children
The ability to manage thoughts
Move through solid structures

My thoughts

a lot of action

this book had a lot of action but the author knows nothing about firearms and keeping the story believable but the narrator did a great job of selling the story

A surprise

What a great referencing look at aliens. Loved this book and it’s surprises. Hope you like it.

Awesome entertaining story

Well written, action packed and witty
For read overall and the narration is simply superior.

An interesting idea

I'd been searching for a new book for a while now when I found this one. The sample grabbed my attention so I bought it and it did not disappoint. Great characters (especially Winnie) and intriguing plot.