Thomas G

Very concise

Revisado: 01-13-25

The book is very concise, which makes sense, because there is still not much known about the events covered in the book. The narrative is easy to follow, as are the speculative parts, which are clearly delimitated from the known facts. Overall, it was an enjoyable listen.

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Major feminist themes

Revisado: 12-11-24

All of the men, except Jack Ryan and the Chinese adversaries, were stereotypical tropes of military men - southern, tobacco chewing, hick speaking, indecisive, slow witted men who are so fortunate to have intelligent women like Katie Ryan, Mary Pat Foley, and the “Night Spider” around to bail them out. Why call it a Jack Ryan Novel, when he is only a peripheral figure in the story? Don’t get me wrong. I like well written, strong, smart female characters, but you don’t have to make the men around them into knuckle dragging idiots who are only good for advancing the story to the next amazing thing our heroine does.

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Least favorite Reacher book.

Revisado: 06-21-24

I’m on my second time through the whole canon of Reacher stories, and this one is my least favorite. It’s not that this is a bad story, but the first couple of chapters are full of ick. Once you get past that it’s a decent story, full of the action and detective work we all like, though. The narration by Sick Hill is amazing, as always. He’ll be sorely missed.

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Missing Dick Hill

Revisado: 05-27-24

Dick Hill IS (was) Jack Reacher. Scott Brick does a great job. I’ve enjoyed his narration of the Tom Clancy books, but it’s clearly a different feel than what I was used to for the Jack Reacher series. Dick Hill will definitely be missed by all who listen to the Jack Reacher books, especially if you listen from the beginning.

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Good story, great narration

Revisado: 05-20-24

The only complaint I have is that the stories keep getting shorter. This book was 1/2 as long as the first few.

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Eye opening

Revisado: 05-17-24

I learned a lot that I never knew about President Nixon. The only critique is that the splices got choppy towards the end. That was distracting as the story was winding down.

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Lots of splicing errors

Revisado: 04-04-24

Nearly every chapter had at least one sentence that was repeated. It made for distracting listening, but the story was great and the reader was very good. Overall, it would have been a solid 5 star book, if not for the splicing errors.

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It’s coupe!

Revisado: 08-15-23

Great story, the narrator did a great job, and my only complaint is his pronunciation of coupe as coupé, which sounds ridiculous and is distracting. Other than the one complaint, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!

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Great book, mediocre production

Revisado: 11-07-21

First, I have to say up front that I really enjoyed this book. The information is well sourced and laid out in an easy to follow manner.

That said, it looks like the “chapters” are broken up according to the narrator’s recording sessions instead of the actual book chapters. That made it more difficult to find where the listener is in the book. The app says “chapter 37, but the book says chapter 4. Some “chapters” are 5 minutes long, others are 16 or 25. This makes it hard to figure out if the listener is at the end of a paragraph, page or chapter. The overall product would have been much better with just a little bit of effort.

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Wow...

Revisado: 01-29-21

I think this book sounded very credible, and brought out enough factual, sourced information to cast doubt on the “official narrative” about the Watergate scandal. Too bad this information was hidden for so long. It’s sickening, actually. Thanks to John O’Conner, we are armed with a more full picture of what happened, and how the WaPo was complicit in shaping the narrative to protect Democrats and frame Nixon.

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