The Unwanted

A Pulse-Pounding Thriller

By: David Lee Corley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"A warrior is unwanted until the barbarians are at the gates."

Years have slipped away since Frank Kane abandoned his violent past. Heavily scarred with a voice like broken glass, society has cast him aside. A useless relic of forgotten wars. He's okay with that. He never liked people much anyway. Content in renovating a dilapidated lighthouse, he finds peace in fixing a broken thing. Hard work. Honest work.

The men who kidnapped his niece should have left the sleeping beast lie. Their actions forced Frank to return to his old ways. Big mistake. Unknowingly, they awakened something terrible – a relentless architect of pain who will stop at nothing to find Grace and bring her home alive.

A sniper's patience. A killer's instinct. A complete disregard for law and authority. Frank operates by his own brutal code of justice, answering to no one. His indifference to judgment is his greatest weapon.

May God have mercy because Frank sure won't.

VIRTUAL VOICE?

NAAHHHH, not for me – not now, not ever. Although easy to understand, there's zero inflection or emotion. Male or female, the same exact voice was used and it got confusing at points. I REALLY want another big bad dude like Reacher who has little regard for people's crap for my next series. Heck, Frank would TOWER over Reacher and is about 150 lbs heavier. But that dang virtual voice! It was all I could concentrate on. Out of over 1,000 titles in my library, this type of narration - this voice - is easily the most frustrating. It was a nice effort and "Virtual Voice" may someday work seamlessly, but it isn't there yet. Someone suck it up and hire Ray Porter who'd make this novel ROCK!